This book provides a unique perspective on the effects of brain damage, as seen through the eyes of doctors and neurosurgeons who have thems elves suffered a brain injury or brain illness. Each of the personal a ccounts, written over the past 120 years, is accompanied by commentary by the author which critically examines the experiences of the suffer er, relating them to current issues in clinical neurology and cognitiv e neuroscience. Kapur provides an introduction to each contribution an d, in a final overview chapter, combines the lessons learned from all the articles. More than 50...

This book has been specially designed to give practical help to those who have to deal with diagnosis and subsequent management of patients with memory dicturbance resulting from specific types of cerebral pathology.
The author achieves this by organising his book on the basis of clinical aetiology. While anatomical and psychological perspectives are introduced, the emphasis is on approaches which will help clinicians in the management of patients with specific neurological diseases. For example, the essential topic of differential diagnosis is given prominence throughout: the principles...

Epilepsy is the most common potentially serious disorder of the brain, and these patients often suffer from memory problems. There are a number of reasons for this: seizures can directly affect the brain in ways that disturb memory; epilepsy often results from trouble in brain regions closely linked to memory; the treatment of epilepsy can affect memory; epilepsy can cause psychological problems, like depression, which interfere with memory. The study of epilepsy and the study of human memoryare interwoven. Epilepsy and Memory comprehensively reviews all aspects of the relationship between...