Kurt Goldstein
Ornstein, Robert Evans
Review "wonderfully detailed illustrations of David Macauley take us to the surreal landscape of the interior of the brain"--This text refers to the Paperback edition. Product Description: Beginning with the simplest view of brain anatomy and operations and using the latest research available, Ornstein and Thomoson give the reader both an actual and a metaphorical picture of the human brain.--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Ornstein, Robert Evans
Review "wonderfully detailed illustrations of David Macauley take us to the surreal landscape of the interior of the brain" --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Book Description Beginning with the simplest view of brain anatomy and operations and using the latest research available, Ornstein and Thomoson give the reader both an actual and a metaphorical picture of the human brain. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Ross, L. (Editor)
Benson, D. Frank (Editor)
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Swencionis, Charles (Editor)
From Book News, Inc. The brain maintains the health of the body. Just how this is accomplished is set out in this collection of essays. Prominent researchers in psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience describe the contemporary investigations of the way we think about health and illness. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Jerome D. Frank, M.D.,Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine "Entertainingly written and authoritative. A superb, comprehensive, balanced review of how the brain guards the health." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Ornstein, Robert
From Book News, Inc. The brain maintains the health of the body. Just how this is accomplished is set out in this collection of essays. Prominent researchers in psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience describe the contemporary investigations of the way we think about health and illness. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Jerome D. Frank, M.D.,Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine "Entertainingly written and authoritative. A superb, comprehensive, balanced review of how the brain guards the health." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Elio Frattaroli
Ornstein, Robert
Amazon.com "I began this book with a pretty firm prejudice," says Robert Ornstein of his survey of the two halves of the human brain. "I believed that after two decades of research we'd find ... that there might be little to distinguish the two sides." Instead, he concluded that "the division of the mind is profound," with deep roots in evolution, embryonic development, and society. It is profound, but not simplistic: Ornstein shows how the right hemisphere is neither a chimpanzeelike moron nor a mystical genius. It provides the context, the big picture, while the left hemisphere keeps track of the details. Doris Lessing says, "I have always admired Robert Ornstein's ability to explain difficult scientific ideas to ordinary people"; Paul Ehrlich calls The Right Mind "the most innovative, fascinating work yet to appear on the role of the two hemispheres of the brain." From Kirkus Reviews From the author of The Evolution of Consciousness (1991) and other popular works on the human mind, a revealing account of his own and others' prior misunderstandings about the right and left brains, a concise summary of current knowledge, and some provocative speculations about the development and functioning of the two hemispheres. The human brain is not unique in its asymmetry, psychologist Ornstein points out, for the divided cortex appeared with the first mammals. Further, fossil evidence... read more
Bergquist, William H.
From Publishers Weekly Stressing the psychological recovery of stroke victims from helplessness, despair and loss of self-esteem, this three-year study is based on 70 stroke survivors whose inspiring stories are recounted. Bergquist heads the Professional School of Psychology in San Francisco and Sacramento; Kobylinski is a clinical social worker; and McLean, who has almost completely recovered from a stroke he suffered 20 years ago at age 20, teaches disabled children. Divided into four parts, the book describes what it's like to have a stroke and various stages of the attack, adapting to the consequences, "reentering the world" and rehabilitation. A sound social-support structure is emphasized as crucial for preparing survivors to cope with the obstacles, both physical and psychological, they face after a stroke. Of particular value as a sensitivity guide for caretakers. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal A psychologist, a young stroke survivor, and a social worker here jointly present their study of psychological adaptations by 70 stroke survivors, from the initial event through reentry into "normal" life. Thumbnail sketches of these survivors and their caregivers' personal experiences are interspersed throughout. In addition, stroke survivor Rod McLean vividly portrays his fears and frustrations as an active, thinking mind trapped inside a nonfunctional body. McLean's contribution effectively... read more