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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcases Sacks's broad range of interests--from his passions for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's. Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for his neurological case histories, his fascination and familiarity with human behavior at its most unexpected and unfamiliar....
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Chicago obstetrician Mackenzie "Mac" Huntress set her standards for men very high early on. It's been over twenty years since she fell for a fictional movie heartthrob, and Mac's content to wait for the real version to come along; it's her nagging mother who's not happy with the timeline. So Mac falls back on her lifelong Mom-surviving skill--lying. The latest fabrication: a handsome neurologist named Michael. Pity he's too busy to meet her friends...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
"Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals-also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, the author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Telling the inspiring human story behind the creation of the Paralympics, this chapter book biography artfully combines archival photos, full-color illustrations, and a riveting narrative to honor the life of Ludwig Guttmann, whose work profoundly changed so many lives"--
5) Awakenings
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1997, c1990
Language
English
Description
A research physician uses an experimental drug, L-Dopa, to treat the catatonic victims of a rare disease.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it. Drawing on these deeply personal reflections, as well...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer, The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings?the account of his long-dormant patients? miraculous but troubling return to life in a Bronx hospital ward. But the book had hardly been an immediate success, and the rumpled clinician was still largely...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A doctor's powerful and deeply human memoir about the mysteries of the brain and his 40 year quest to find a treatment for MS. Dr. Stephen L. Hauser is an acclaimed physician and neuroimmunologist who has spent his career performing cutting-edge research on multiple sclerosis (MS), a devastating brain disease that affects millions of people worldwide. His work has revolutionized our understanding of the genetic immunology and treatment of MS, and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sweeping legal thriller follows a sixteen-year-old who suffers from a neurological condition that has frozen him in time, the team of lawyers, doctors, and detectives who are desperate to wake him up, and--more than a decade later--the trial of the teenager's father for murder.
Author
Language
English
Description
A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed. Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on track to be one of the biggest...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A celebration of dogs, the scientists who've lived alongside them, and how canines have been key to advancements in science for the betterment of all species. Almost everywhere there are humans on planet Earth, there are dogs. But what do dogs know and understand of the world? Do their emotions feel like our own? Do they love like we do? What do they think of us? Since our alliance first began on the hunt and on the farm, our relationship with dogs...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"These questions took on a new urgency for Pagels when dealing with unimaginable loss--the death of her young son, followed a year later by the shocking loss of her husband. Here she interweaves a personal story with the work that she loves, illuminating how, for better and worse, religious traditions have shaped how we understand ourselves; how we relate to one another; and, most importantly, how to get through the most difficult challenges we face....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The first program is an in-depth exploration of stroke - prevention strategies, the warning signs, early treatment and continuing recovery. Interviews with three neurologists are interspersed with short clips of couples describing the onset of their strokes. Viewers learn about the newest techniques for reducing brain damage through early treatment of stroke in the emergency room. Rehabilitative measures to retrain the body after the stroke are also...
Publisher
Electric Pictures
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Why is the sky blue? Why do leaves turn yellow in autumn? And why does red play so powerful a role in so many cultures? Is colour real, or is it just a construct of our brains?. Taking the globe as its canvas, and drawing on science, history, art and other disciplines, Cracking the Colour Code is a series for people who are interested in the many mysteries posed by colour, and at the same time seek to enjoy the incredible diversity and sensation that...
15) The night child
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl's face appears above the students' desks and terror rushes through Nora's body. Twenty-four hours later, while on Thanksgiving vacation, the face appears again. Shaken and unsteady, Nora meets with neurologists and eventually, a psychiatrist. As the story progresses, a...
Author
Series
Medical medium volume 7
Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The first of two essential books about our most complex organ -- the brain -- dives deep into why people all over the world are suffering with mental health and brain-related symptoms and conditions. In this book, find answers to 100+ symptoms, diseases, and disorders. With the advanced state of brain research today, it's easy to think that we're arming ourselves with knowledge about how best to care for our precious minds and brains. Are we? Or is...
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