The Exceptional Brain by Robert Kaplan

The Exceptional Brain by Robert Kaplan

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Zusammenfassung

From da Vinci to van Gogh, Hitler to Howard Hughes, this is a fascinating investigation into how brain diseases and conditions like epilepsy, syphilis, schizophrenia and tumours have made their sufferers both famous and infamous and have in fact altered the course of history.

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The Exceptional Brain by Robert Kaplan

The Exceptional Brain and How It Changed the World delves into the lives of famous figures and celebrates the work of ground-breaking doctors who helped us understand the way the brain works. Dr. Kaplan illuminates both the bizarre and common conditions that affected a collection of exceptional people, including Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Adolf Hitler, Jack the Ripper, Arthur Inman (world's longest diarist), Nijinsky, Woody Guthrie, Jack Ruby, Howard Hughes and others. Conditions and diseases such as temporal lobe epilepsy, hypergraphia, mirror writing, brain tumour, parkinsonism, syphilis, schizophrenia and obsessive compulsive disorder. The Exceptional Brain and How It Changed the World is fascinating reading for anyone who has ever wondered how our brains tick.
Dr Robert Kaplan is a forensic psychiatrist at the Liaison Clinic, in Wollongong NSW.
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ISBN 13 9781742374444
ISBN 10 1742374441
Titel The Exceptional Brain
Autor Robert Kaplan
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Allen & Unwin
Erscheinungsjahr 2011-09-01
Seitenanzahl 352
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