Injured brains of medical minds II / edited by Narinder Kapur, Vaughan Bell, Daniel Friedland, and Steven Kemp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kapur, Narinder, editor.

Bell, Vaughan, editor.

Friedland, Daniel, editor.

Kemp, Steven, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brain--Diseases.

Brain.

Cerebrovascular disease.

Brain--Wounds and injuries.

Dementia.

Brain--Tumors.

Brain--Infections.

Inflammation.

Multiple sclerosis.

Epilepsy.

Medical personnel--Health and hygiene--Case studies.

Medical personnel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This second volume includes totally new articles and commentaries, providing a valuable insight into what it is like to suffer from a brain disorder as well as advice both to patients and practitioners as to what can best be done to improve everyday limitations resulting from a brain disorder.

Contents:

Cover

Injured Brains of Medical Minds II

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Publisher acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Stroke

1.1. Personal observations and reflections on my right anterior cortical stroke and (partial) recovery: impaired and preserved function

Commentary

1.2. A bolt from the blue

1.3. Four weeks post-​stroke

1.4. Musical alexia with recovery: a personal account

1.5. Journey during acute ischemic stroke: a physician's experience

1.6. A stroke survivor's story

1.7. Summary of 'Any recent stressors? A memoir of transient global amnesia'

1.8. Summary of 'Close your eyes and see: stroke sequelae versus functional neurological disorder in a physician'

1.9. Summary of 'An aphasiologist has a stroke'

1.10. Summary of 'The road not taken'

1.11. Summary of 'Sleep and dream suppression following a lateral medullary infarct: a first-person account'

1.12. Summary of 'Reflecting on a nurse's personal experience with a stroke'

1.13. Books by doctors/​scientists recounting their personal experience of stroke

Chapter 2. Traumatic brain injury

2.1. A (so-​called) mild head injury

2.2. Recovering from severe brain injury

2.3. 'I felt let down by psychology'

2.4. The French Connection

2.5. Back from the edge

2.6. Summary of 'A survivor's perspective on living with traumatic brain injury'

2.7. Summary of 'No more apologies'

2.8. Summary of 'The making of a better doctor'

2.9. Summary of 'Denial inside out: subjective experience with anosognosia with closed head injury'.

Commentary

2.10. Summary of 'On being a doctor again'

2.11. Books by doctors/​scientists recounting their personal experience of traumatic brain injury

Chapter 3. Dementia

3.1. Losing the thread: experiences of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease

3.2. Dementia with cardiac problems

3.3. Summary of 'Early awareness of Alzheimer's disease: a neurologist's personal perspective'

3.4. Summary of 'Neurologist faces his Alzheimer diagnosis, determined to lessen stigma surrounding the disease [Interview of Dr Gibbs by Ms Rubin]'

3.5. A neurologist with Parkinson's disease

3.6. Being a patient with early stage Parkinson's disease: reaction to the diagnosis and management

3.7. A disease that takes you unawares

3.8. Parkinson's Disease: personal experience

3.9. Gazing at the future

3.10. Summary of 'A world no less sublime'

3.11. Summary of 'No question of denial'

3.12. Finding Hope in the Midst of Despair: My Decade With Parkinson's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia

3.13. Summary of 'Twilight and me: a soliloquy'

3.14. Normal pressure hydrocephalus: new complications and concepts

3.15. Normal pressure hydrocephalus: a case report by a physician who is the patient

3.16. Summary of 'My experience of living with nonfluent/ agrammatic variant primary progressive aphasia: challenges, compensatory strategies and adaptations'

3.17. Summary of 'Brain anatomy: thoughts from the inside'

3.18. Books by doctors/​scientists recounting their personal experience of dementia

Chapter 4. Brain tumour

4.1. Ode to Charlie: reflections on my brain tumour

4.2. From expert to patient.

4.3. "Grey Matters"

4.4. Living with a benign brain tumour

4.5. Me, Myself, and the Meningioma

4.6. Summary of 'Lovenox hurts'

4.7. Summary of 'Memento mori'

4.8. Books by doctors/​scientists recounting their personal experience of brain tumour

Chapter 5. Infectious and inflammatory conditions

5.1. My journey with limbic encephalitis

5.2. Autoimmune limbic encephalitis due to VGKC-​Ab

5.3. Summary of 'Full circle'

5.4. COVID delirium and long COVID

5.5. First Person Account COVID-19 Delirium in a Doctor: When Death Stalks the Mind

5.6. Summary of 'Delirium: an experience and some reflections'

5.7. Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome: a physician tells the story of her survival

5.8. Books by doctors/​scientists recounting their personal experience of infectious and inflammatory conditions

Chapter 6. Multiple sclerosis

6.1. 'Living for today' with a progressive condition

6.2. Summary of 'Physician as patient: lessons to learn'

6.3. Summary of 'Non-traditional diagnoses in minority populations: white disease, brown body'

6.4. Summary of 'Visiting the sadness'

6.5. Summary of 'Telling the world'

6.6. Summary of 'What should I say? Communication around disability'

6.7. Books by doctors/​scientists recounting their personal experience of multiple sclerosis

Chapter 7. Epilepsy

7.1. Epilepsy, my experience. The impact of compassion and hope amidst stigma and suicide

7.2. Reflections of a medical student with epilepsy. A case report

7.3. My epilepsy story

Commentary.

7.4. Books by doctors/​scientists recounting their personal experience of epilepsy

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 19, 2024).

ISBN:

9780191995675

0191995673

9780198890041

0198890044

OCLC:

1463086609