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016698
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London, Picador, 2011.
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xiii, 257pBlue Spine
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Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre world of neurological disorders. Looks at what happens when things go wrong with parts of the brain most of us don't know exist. This work shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be. It is suitable for those who have felt from time to time that certain twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any moment, one might lose it.
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9780330523622 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| I00856 | 616.089/SAC | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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016821
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New York, Vintage Books, 1999.
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xxiii, 338pYellow and White Spine
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Migraine is an age-old - the first recorded instances date back over two thousand years,- and often debilitating condition, affecting a 'substantial minority' of the population across the globe. In this book, Oliver Sacks offers at once a medical account of its occurrence and management; an exploration of its physical, physiological, and psychological underpinnings and consequences; and a meditation on the nature and experience of health and illness.
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Migraine equivalents
Migraine aura and classical migraine
Migrainous neuralgia ("cluster headache"), hemiplegic migraine, ophthalmoplegic migraine, pseudo-migraine
The structure of migraine
The predisposition to migraine
Periodic and paroxysmal migraines
Circumstantial migraine
Situational migraine
Physiological mechanisms of migraine
The physiological organisation of migraines
Biological approaches to migraine
Psychological approaches to migraine
General measures in the management of migraine
Specific measures during and between attacks
Recent advances in the treatment of migraine
Migraine aura and hallucinatory constants / with Ralph M. Siegel
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9780375704062 Pb.
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| I00921 | 616.857/SAC | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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020105
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London, Picador, 2010.
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xii, 260pMustard spine
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In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of these people, the challenge is to adapt to a radically new way of being in the world – and The Mind’s Eye is testament to the myriad ways that we, as humans, are capable of rising to this challenge.
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9780330508902 Pb.
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| I01708 | 616.855/SAC | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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Rev.& Expd. ed.
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New York, Picador, 2008xv,.
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xv, 425pBlue spine
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Music is irresistible, haunting, and unforgettable, and in Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks tells us why. Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does--humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks's compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own brains, and of the human experience. In Musicophilia, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people--from a man who is struck by lightning and suddenly inspired to become a pianist at the age of forty-two, to an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; from people with "amusia," to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans, to a man whose memory spans only seven seconds--for everything but music.
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9780330523592 Pb.
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