![]() (Such a patient might say of his or her own left s ide, "It's my brother's" or "It's yours.") Dr. Joseph Babinski, the great French neurologist, described a n even more extraordinary syndromeÐanosognosia, the inability to perceive that one side of one's own body is paralyzed and the often-bizarre attribution of the para lyzed side to another person. Silas Weir MitchellÐwho was a novelist as well as a neu rologistÐprovided unforgettable descriptions of the phantom limbs (or "sensory gho sts," as he first called them) in soldiers who had been injured on the battlefie lds of the Civil War. To Saraswathy, the goddess of learning, music and wisdom Foreword The great neur ologists and psychiatrists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were masters of description, and some of their case histories provided an almost nove listic richness of detail. Ramachandran, M.D., Ph.D., and Sandra Blakeslee Copyright © 1998 ISBN 0688152473 To my mother, Meenakshi To my father, Subramanian To my brother, Ravi To Diane, Mani and Jayak rishna To all my former teachers in India and England 1 ![]() PHANTOMS IN THE BRAIN Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind V.S.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |