Gail Buckley
The Case of Solomon Shereshevsky
Solomon Veniaminovich Shereshevsky was born in the Russian village of Torzhok in 1896. At his father’s urging, Shereshevsky briefly...
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Gail Buckley
The Case of Phineas Gage
At 4:30 p.m. on September 13, 1848, a premature blast at a railroad construction site in Cavendish, Vermont propelled a 43-inch long,...
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Gail Buckley
The Case of Louis Victor Leborgne (“Tan”)
Louis Victor Leborgne, born on July 21, 1809, was one of six children in a middle-class family. Leborgne suffered from epileptic attacks...
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Gail Buckley
The Case of JP - Effects of Frontal Lobe Damage on Personality
JP was born in December of 1912, the 11.5-pound product of a normal pregnancy and gestation, followed by a 22-hour labor and a difficult...
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Gail Buckley
The Case of HM (Henry Gustav Molaison)
HM, a high school graduate who worked as a motor winder, was hit by a bicycle as a child, sustaining a 5-minute loss of consciousness. At...
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Gail Buckley
The Case of Auguste Deter
In 1901, Auguste Deter, a 51-year-old woman, was admitted to the Asylum for the Insane and Epileptic in Frankfurt am Main. She had been...
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Gail Buckley
Mirror Box Treatment for Phantom Pain
V. S. Ramachandran asked a most daring question; whether phantom paralysis and pain could be "unlearned." Ramachandran then hit on the...
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Gail Buckley
Constraint Induced Therapy for Cerebral Palsy
Neuroscientist Edward Taub has applied CI principles to a number of other disorders. He has begun working with children with cerebral...
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Gail Buckley
Taub’s Constraint Induced Therapy Cures Paralysis
Nicole von Ruden is the kind of person who lights up the room the moment she walks in. Born in 1967, she has worked as an elementary...
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Gail Buckley
Constraint Induced Therapy and Learned Nonuse
In the 1970s, Edward Taub, then a behavioral psychiatrist, took a job as a research assistant in an experimental neurology lab, to better...
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Gail Buckley
The Arrowsmith School For Brain Change
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
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Gail Buckley
Explaining Obsessions and Compulsions - OCD
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
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