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Informationen zum Autor Jenni Ogden holds a PhD in psychology and worked as a university professor, researcher and practitioner in the fields of clinical psychology and neuropsychology for 27 years. The author of the popular text, Fractured Minds: A Case-Study Approach to Clinical Neuropsychology, she now lives with her husband on a remote island off the coast of New Zealand and writes nonfiction, and fiction with a psychological or medical theme. Klappentext In Trouble in Mind, clinical neuropsychologist Jenni Ogden recounts with compassion, insight, and vivid description the stories of patients who, as the result of brain damage, begin thinking and behaving strangely. As they struggle to make sense of their disordered minds, they teach everyone around them about courage and determination, and what it is to be human. Zusammenfassung In Trouble in Mind, clinical neuropsychologist Jenni Ogden recounts with compassion, insight, and vivid description the stories of patients who, as the result of brain damage, begin thinking and behaving strangely. As they struggle to make sense of their disordered minds, they teach everyone around them about courage and determination, and what it is to be human. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Backstory: The Basics of Clinical Neuropsychology 2. Lost for Words: Two Tales of Aphasia 3. Left Out, Right In! The Artist with Hemineglect 4. The CEO Has Left the Building: Control and the Frontal Lobes 5. The Man Who Misplaced His Body 6. The Mind-Blind Motorcyclist 7. HM and Elvis: A Special Memory 8. The Singer or the Song: A Pact with Epilepsy 9. The Amazing Woman: Half a Brain Will Do the Job! 10. Just a Few Knocks on the Head: The Concussion Conundrum 11. How To Get There: The Far Side of Severe Brain Injury 12. Shaken Up: Taking Control of Parkinson's Disease 13. Hard, Ain't It Hard: A Family's Fight with Huntington's Disease 14. The Long Goodbye: Coming to Terms with Alzheimer's Disease ...
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In Trouble in Mind, clinical neuropsychologist Jenni Ogden recounts with compassion, insight, and vivid description the stories of patients who, as the result of brain damage, begin thinking and behaving strangely. As they struggle to make sense of their disordered minds, they teach everyone around them about courage and determination, and what it is to be human.
