Gail BuckleyThe Case of Phineas GageAt 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 BuckleyThe 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 BuckleyThe Case of JP - Effects of Frontal Lobe Damage on PersonalityJP 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 BuckleyThe 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 BuckleyThe Case of Auguste DeterIn 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 BuckleyThe Tale of The Silver Spring MonkeysNeuroscientist Michael Merzenich, in his experiments, showed that when sensory input from a finger was cut off, brain map changes...
Gail BuckleyTaub’s Constraint Induced Therapy Cures ParalysisNicole 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...
Gail BuckleyShaping and Massed Practice RehabilitationIn May 1981 Edward Taub was forty-nine, heading up his own lab, the Behavioral Biology Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, with grand...
Gail BuckleyConstraint Induced Therapy and Learned NonuseIn the 1970s, Edward Taub, then a behavioral psychiatrist, took a job as a research assistant in an experimental neurology lab, to better...
Gail BuckleySylvie and I remain alone and silent, her hand squeezing my inert fingers“Wind begins to whip up the sand. The tide has gone out so far that swimmers look like tiny dots on the horizon. The children run to...
Gail BuckleyVeering Away from LocalizationismExcerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
Gail BuckleyToday is Father's Day. Until my stroke, we had felt no need to fit this made-up holiday...“Today is Father's Day. Until my stroke, we had felt no need to fit this made-up holiday into our emotional calendar. But today we spend...
Gail BuckleyThe Man with A Shattered WorldExcerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
Gail BuckleyI need to feel strongly, to love and to admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe“I need to feel strongly, to love and to admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe. A letter from a friend, a Balthus painting on...
Gail BuckleyMysterious paradox: time, motionless here, gallops out there...“Mysterious paradox: time, motionless here, gallops out there. In my contracted world, the hours drag on but the months flash by.” -...
Gail BuckleyMy diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly...“My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly. There is so much to do. You can wander off in space...
Gail BuckleyBut for now, I would be the happiest of men if I could just swallow...“But for now, I would be the happiest of men if I could just swallow the overflow of saliva that endlessly floods my mouth. Even before...
Gail BuckleyUnder the physical therapist’s gaze, I am a Tour de France long shot“Under the physical therapist’s gaze, I am a Tour de France long shot on the verge of pulling off a record-setting victory. Success...
Gail Buckley“You can handle the wheelchair," said the occupational therapist“You can handle the wheelchair," said the occupational therapist, with a smile intended to make the remark sound like good news, whereas...
Gail BuckleySpeech therapy is an art that deserves to be more widely known“Speech therapy is an art that deserves to be more widely known. You cannot imagine the acrobatics your tongue mechanically performs in...