Injured Brains of Medical Minds: Views from Within Book

1	Memory disorders	3
	Poor memory: a case report	8
	Did I remove that gallbladder?	21
	Looking after a patient with Alzheimer's disease	35
	Busman's holiday	38
	Clinical interviews	39
2	Language disorders	49
	On being bereft of speech	53
	A physician's account of his own aphasia	59
	Auto-observation of aphasia	71
	Notes from an aphasic psychologist, or different strokes for different folks	76
	The accident and the ensuing six months	82
	Recovery at twelve months	90
	Two years later	96
	A personal case history of transient anomia	104
3	Visual disorders	117
	Patterns of cerebral integration indicated by the scotomas of migraine	121
	Visual hallucinations following viral encephalitis: a self report	129
	Recovery from occipital stroke: a sell report and an inquiry into visual processes	138
	Visual field effects of classical migraine	154
4	Parkinson's disease	165
	Parkinsonism	169
	Inside Parkinsonism ... a psychiatrist's personal experience	172
	Somatopsychic	174
	Alleviation of severe emotional symptoms by carbidopalevodopa, MSD, in a Parkinson's patient: a personal report	177
	Parkinson's disease	179
	Parkinson's disease	181
	On being a Parkinsonian	185
	Parkinson's disease: doctors as patients	200
5	Brain tumour	217
	Cerebral tumour	220
	Pituitary cyst	224
	An astrocytoma	226
	In memory of a brian tumour	228
	Brain tumour	231
	Life without a cerebellum	238
	Life without a cerebellum: update	240
6	Stroke	243
	The language disorders	246
	Self-observations and neuro-anatomical considerations after a stroke	251
	Personal view	270
	How my teaching about the management of stroke would change after my own	272
	My experience had a famous name	276
	A personal account by a sufferer from a stroke	279
	Memoir of a thinking radish	283
	On the receiving end	290
7	Head injury	295
	Thirty-three months of recovery from trauma: a subjective report. Closed brain injury	298
	Cerebral concussion	307
	Neurosurgeon as victim	313
	What does it feel like to be brain damaged?	317
	Faith, hope, and love: nontraditional therapy in recovery from serious head injury, a personal account	324
	Brain injury: a personal view	341
	The locked-in syndrome - comments from a survivor	342
8	Epilepsy	347
	On a particular variety of epilepsy ('intellectual aura'), one case with symptoms of organic brain disease	351
	A prognostic and therapeutic indication in epilepsy	360
	Case of epilepsy with tasting movements and 'dreamy state' - very small patch of softening in the left uncinate gyrus	361
	The story of my epilepsy: the fortunate fate of a stubborn fool	372
	Epilepsy	380
	Epilepsy	384
	My life with epilepsy	386
	Epilepsy in my life	389
	Life with epilepsy: 1960-1992	394
	To not be afraid	395
9	Overview	399
	Acknowledgements of sources	417
	Subject index	423