Changeable Brain
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Changeable Brain

What Cases of Traumatic Brain Injury Teach Us About the Mind

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eBook - ePub

Changeable Brain

What Cases of Traumatic Brain Injury Teach Us About the Mind

About this book

Brain injuries can result in highly specific and surprising changes in behaviour that have revealed to us how the mind works.

The brain is the most complicated object in the known universe. After spending millennia trying to understand our ever-changing world, the brain is now turning its capacities for reasoning, remembering, and understanding inward, as it tries to understand itself.

The biggest breakthroughs in neuroscience have come mostly by accident. These accidents didn't happen in research labs. They happened on railway job sites, in showers, on bicycles, in cars or were the result of infections from uncommon diseases.

When an individual suffers brain damage as the result of an accident or illness, the negative effects can be profound — life altering and lifelong — yet the insights offered by the effects of these injuries have been revolutionary for neuroscientists. Through an examination of landmark cases of traumatic brain injury, Dr. Lorin J. Elias explains how each case has expanded our understanding of the mind.

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Information

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Year
2026
Print ISBN
9781459755130
eBook ISBN
9781459755154

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. The Brain
  8. 1. Personality Change — Phineas Gage
  9. 2. Language — Mr. Leborgne
  10. 3. Alien Limb Syndrome
  11. 4. Anosognosia
  12. 5. The Split Brain — V.P.
  13. 6. Fear — S.M.
  14. 7. Memory — H.M.
  15. 8. Memory — Clive Wearing
  16. 9. Visual Agnosia — JBR
  17. 10. Deep Dyslexia — G.R.
  18. 11. Reading — Monsieur C.
  19. 12. Facial Recognition — P.S.
  20. 13. Apraxia — Mr. T.
  21. 14. Bálint–Holmes Syndrome
  22. 15. Hemispatial Neglect
  23. 16. Visually Guided Movement — D.F.
  24. 17. Blindsight — G.Y.
  25. Conclusion
  26. Acknowledgements
  27. Glossary
  28. Notes
  29. Image Credits
  30. Index
  31. About the Author