02966cam a2200457 i 4500 18145878 KCU 20241001121545.0 140509s2014 nyu 000 0deng 2014017011 9781782395508 9781250034984 (hardback) 1250034981 (hbk.) 9781250034991 (e-book) DLC eng DLC KCU AACR2 pcc n-us-ma RC351 .R66 2014 23 616.8 ROP SCI089000 BIO017000 bisacsh Ropper, Allan H. Author Reaching down the rabbit hole : Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain / Dr. Allan H. Ropper and Brian David Burrell. First edition. London : Atlantic Books London, 2015. 263 pages ; 20 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier "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 living. How 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"-- Provided by publisher. Ropper, Allan H. Neurology Anecdotes. Brain Diseases Anecdotes. Neurologists Massachusetts Boston Biography. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience. bisacsh BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical. bisacsh Burrell, Brian, 1955- Cover image http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/984/9781250034984/image/lgcover.9781250034984.jpg 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 0 36845 36845 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC KCU/LIB/01 KCU/LIB/01 REF 2024-10-01 purchase 0 616.8 ROP 5975 2024-10-01 12:14:48 1 2024-10-01 BK