Incredible Consequences of Brain Injury: The Ways Your Brain Can Break

ISBN-13: 9781032233666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 328 str.

Alexander R. Toftness

Opis

Incredible Consequences of Brain Injury: The Ways your Brain can Break explains the acquired brain disorders that can suddenly change a person’s life. Underlining the intricate workings of the human brain and the amazing things it does every day, this book examines what happens when the brain stops functioning as it should.

Spis treści

1. Achromatopsia. 2. Akinetic Mutism. 3. Akinetopsia. 4. Alexia. 5. Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. 6. Alien Hand Syndrome. 7. Amnesia. 8. Anosognosia. 9. Aphantasia. 10. Aphasia. 11. Ataxia (and Dysmetria). 12. Bálint Syndrome (including Simultagnosia). 13. Bobble-Head Doll Syndrome. 14. Capgras Syndrome (and other Delusional Misidentification Syndromes). 15. Charles Bonnet Syndrome. 16. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. 17. Cluster Headaches. 18. Coma and Disorders of Consciousness. 19. Cortical Blindness (plus Anton-Babinski Syndrome, Blindsight, & Riddoch Syndrome). 20. Cortical Deafness (plus other Central Hearing Disorders). 21. Cotard Syndrome (Walking Corpse Syndrome). 22. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (and other Prion Diseases). 23. Diminished Decision-Making Capacity. 24. Echophenomena and Coprophenomena. 25. Environmental Tilt (Visual Allesthesia). 26. Exploding Head Syndrome. 27. Fatal Familial Insomnia. 28. Gerstmann Syndrome (Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, Finger Agnosia, and Left-Right Disorientation). 29. Hemianopsia (and Scotoma). 30. Hemispatial Neglect (and Autosomatagnosia). 31. Klüver-Bucy Syndrome. 32. Korsakoff Syndrome. 33. Kuru. 34. Locked-In Syndrome. 35. Migraine Headaches. 36. Narcolepsy (and Cataplexy). 37. Pathological Déjà Vu (and Jamais Vu). 38. Phantom Sensations (including Phantom Limb Pain). 39. Prosopagnosia. 40. Seizures. 41. Sleeping Beauty Syndrome (Kleine-Levin Syndrome). 42. Social-Emotional Agnosias. 43. Somatoparaphrenia. 44. Synesthesia. 45. Tinnitus. 46. Topographical Disorientation. 47. Vertigo. 48. Visual Object Agnosia.

O autorze

Alexander R. Toftness, PhD, is a Science Communicator from the Midwestern United States. He hosts the ARTexplains Science and History channel on YouTube. Dr. Toftness has taught a variety of biological, cognitive, and educational psychology courses and has presented at numerous science communication events across the country.