The Exceptional Brain

By Robert M. Kaplan and Robert M. Kaplan

Da Vinci to van Gogh, Hitler to Howard Hughes how brain diseases and conditions like epilepsy, syphilis, schizophrenia, and tumorshave made their sufferers both famous and infamous, and have altered the course of historyWriting in a chatty, anecdotal style, this work by aforensic psychiatrist and researcher delves into the brain conditions that affected famous figures and celebrates the work of groundbreaking doctors who discovered amazing things about the brain explaining, in plain English, exactly what they discovered. Thesignificant historical figures covered include Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Adolf Hitler, Jack the Ripper, Arthur Inman (the world's longest diarist), Vaslav Nijinsky, Woody Guthrie, andJack Ruby. Dr. Kaplan illuminates both the bizarre and common conditions that affected these and many more exceptional humans. The conditions and diseases discussed includetemporal lobe epilepsy, hypergraphia, mirror writing, brain tumor, Parkinson's syndrome, syphilis, schizophrenia, and obsessive compulsive disorder." This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1742374441
• ISBN13: 9781742374444
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"