The bags Oliverio

The bags Oliverio is a writer not common but also British neurologist and psychiatrist. As far as I know that the man who confused his wife from a hat yours is the only book so far. This is also the only book about madness know what that tells stories of mentally - of sick people so warm and sensitive. Although the main theme of the book is serious neurological diseases, described in somewhat detailed, with expressions not afraid scary, medical. The book, published by Simon & Schuster, is a compilation of articles compartment and the background compiled by the author during his long medical career. Each chapter presents a patient with its unusual, complex problem which consist mainly of the deficit, or loss of neurological function. Dr. Sacks account histories that provide the special care to demonstrate the true human nature even if it is bent by mental illness. His deeply humanistic approach to patients leads to address them soft and relentless attempts to bring these people to normal life cooperating and talking with patients. Such an attitude seems to be rare among doctors (especially psychiatrists) led by the goodwill of helping often forget to treat the man and / as another topic of research. The stories written by real life and just scribbles by Dr. Sacks reveal the same truth about human beings, even those severely disabled with severe malfunction of the right hemisphere of a brain can be valuable and interesting people. The book not only tells how mentally - sick people facing their problems, but also discloses how these problems could be rough.

The normal man does not even done what he should be thankful that his brain works properly. , I mean to ordinary people, we are not aware how strange it is to see only the correct part of the world, for example. Dr. Oliverio represents a woman who can not perceive at the side of his body at all, even when presented with a mirror.

It is difficult to imagine such a situation but while you eat to Mrs S. making the food just the right piece of the plate. When she wants to eat more she has to turn his plate until it sees the fourth of its food and over again if she is still hungry moves the plate so she can stain an eight of the meal.

The other interesting story explaining the meaning of the title of the book. Dr. P, musician and conductor suffers from a neurological abnormality that makes it identifies articles in a schematic sense, without full recognition. The obvious while looking for details that identifies an object as the outgoing five of a glove, barely acknowledging the glove itself and what it is used. Once he got dressed grabbed the head of his wife instead of the hat. Immersed in a world of lifeless abstractions and did not have to Dr. Q. a world vision real. Referring only to things in the right way or a right-pitch at the side, involved the loss of use inside the left section of the brain. However viewing schemes was preserved. Making music, the study he had spent his life on, he could use his music to help carry the images for recognition or to allow him to continue with an action. For example, each activity carried out what he had to associate itself with some melody, not if he felt lost and could not move on.
You may look as a warning to the drunkard tables but also how little attention we pay to our memory and its importance in creating a sense of identity. Jimmie G. is a man aged medium that can recall his life in great detail and clarity to some extent - the end of World War II. After that he can not remember anything that happened and he could not recall events that happened five minutes ago. The cree yet he is twenty years (the age he was when the war ended). Although he recognizes the face of an older man when he looks in the mirror, in just a few minutes he forgets that he did ever so. He is very intelligent and delayed at all but has only knowledge he gained while still in high school and while he worked as a seaman for the Navy. If you teach anything new, he forgets almost immediately. Dr. Sacks diagnosed his condition as Korsakov 's disorder, brought ignition erosion of some structures of the brain caused by alcoholism. Is not it tragic to not remember anything that has happened just minutes ago?

The author tells stories of the wise fool of assumptions - people who although mentally - hurt the index with intelligence about 60, is fortified with huge memory that we can not even measure or other supernatural abilities. Many of them can recite the phone book phone the new phone book phone from New York. Some of them can not say how much is 2 +2 but can say what day of the week was the third from July 1293.

Animo surely anyone to read this book. Although such words have liked the role of suberabundances, agnosia, deficiency can confuse occasionally speaking in general terms is not difficult to read due to descriptions clear and lively language. Strongly recommend this book to everyone would like to read about odd complexity of the human mind.

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