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Gail Buckley
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Impossible Dream
Devastating Tragedy Leads to Extraordinary Triumph AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ON AMAZON NOW! There are many books about autism, but few are...
Gail Buckley
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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...
Gail Buckley
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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,...
Gail Buckley
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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...
Gail Buckley
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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...
Gail Buckley
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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...
Gail Buckley
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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...
Gail Buckley
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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...
Gail Buckley
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Explaining Phantom Limbs and Pain
The phantom limb was first proposed by Silas Weir Mitchell, an American physician who tended the wounded at Gettysburg and became...
Gail Buckley
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The Tale of The Silver Spring Monkeys
Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich, in his experiments, showed that when sensory input from a finger was cut off, brain map changes...
Gail Buckley
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“I Can Connect Anything to Anything”
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
Gail Buckley
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Paul Bach-y-Rita and Sensory Substitution
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
Gail Buckley
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Michael Merzenich Today - Fast ForWord
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
Gail Buckley
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Neurons that Fire Together Wire Together
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
Gail Buckley
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Micro-mapping the Mind with Microelectrodes
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
Gail Buckley
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How Brain Mapping Came About
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
Gail Buckley
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