Product Description: During his thirty-plus years of practicing in West Texas and Minnesota, physician and neurologist Tom Hutton discovered that a doctor’s best teachers are often his patients. From these (extra)ordinary individuals, he gained a whole-hearted respect for the resourcefulness, courage, and resilience of the human spirit...read more

"Tell the doctor where it hurts." It sounds simple enough, unless the problem affects the very organ that produces awareness and generates speech. What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this book, Dr. Allan Ropper and Brian Burrell take the reader behind the scenes at Harvard Medical School's neurology unit to show how a seasoned diagnostician faces down bizarre, life-altering afflictions. Like Alice in Wonderland, Dr. Ropper inhabits a world where absurdities abound:• A figure skater whose body has become a ticking time-bomb • A salesman who drives around and around a traffic rotary, unable to get off • A college quarterback who can't stop calling the same play • A child molester who, after falling on the ice, is left with a brain that is very much dead inside a body that is very much alive • A mother of two young girls, diagnosed with ALS, who has to decide whether a life locked inside her own head is worth livingHow does one begin to treat such cases, to counsel people whose lives may be changed forever? How does one train the next generation of clinicians to deal with the moral and medical aspects of brain disease? Dr. Ropper and his colleague answer these questions by taking the reader into a rarified world where lives and minds hang in the balance.

Product Description: "Tell the doctor where it hurts." It sounds simple enough, unless the problem affects the very organ that produces awareness and generates speech. What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? Like Alice in Wonderland, Dr...read more

Product Description: To these seven narratives of neurological disorder, Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his best sellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat...read more

Product Description: This book is about ordinary and extraordinary people. They are all patients with different neurological problems, but the focus of the stories is on their personal struggles and their way of coping, rather than the disease. The stories delve into different issues: medical-ethical dilemmas, misunderstandings, secrets, and lies; as well as positive and up-beat attitudes, and the causes of imaginary illnesses...read more

Presents a series of stories about men and women who, representing both medical and literary oddities, raise fundamental questions about the nature of reality

Product Description: 'Magnificent... fascinating.' - WASHINGTON POST. 'Dr. Sacks' best book to date.' - NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'The true medical detective story.' - BOOKLIST From the author who gave us AWAKENINGS, the basis for the celebrated film starring Robert de Niro and Robin Williams...read more

The author of Awakenings profiles seven neurological patients, including a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome and an artist whose color sense is destroyed in an accident but finds new creative power in black and white. Read by Oliver Sacks. Simultaneous.

Product Description: “He reached out his hand, and took hold of his wife’s head, tried to lift it off, to put it on ... His wife looked as if she was used to such things.” In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders...read more

The author details the strange and often frightening results occurring when things go wrong in the brain, with case histories and diagnoses of historical figures