Incredible consequences of brain injury : the ways your brain can break

Summary: "Incredible Consequences of Brain Injury: The Ways your Brain can Break explains the acquired brain disorders that can suddenly change a person's life. Underlining the intricate workings of the human brain and the amazing things it does every day, this book examines what happens when the brain stops functioning as it should"--

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ISBN: 9781032233673
ISBN: 9781032233666
Physical Description: x, 307 pages ; 24 cm
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Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction -- Achromatopsia -- Akinetic mutism -- Akinetopsia -- Alexia -- Alice in Wonderland syndrome -- Alien hand syndrome -- Amnesia -- Anosognosia -- Aphantasia -- Aphasia -- Ataxia (and dysmetria) -- Bálint syndrome (including simultagnosia) -- Bobble-head doll syndrome -- Capgras syndrome (and other delusional misidentification syndromes) -- Charles Bonnet syndrome -- Chronic traumatic encephalopathy -- Cluster headaches -- Coma and disorders of consciousness -- Cortical blindness (plus Anton-Babinski syndrome, blindsight, & Riddoch syndrome) -- Cortical deafness (plus other central hearing disorders) -- Cotard syndrome (walking corpse syndrome) -- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (and other prion diseases) -- Diminished decision-making capacity -- Echophenomena and coprophenomena -- Environmental tilt (visual allesthesia) -- Exploding head syndrome -- Fatal familial insomnia -- Gerstmann syndrome (dysgraphia, dyscalculia, finger agnosia, and left-right disorientation) -- Hemianopsia (and scotoma) -- Hemispatial neglect (and autosomatagnosia) -- Klüver-Bucy syndrome -- Korsakoff syndrome -- Kuru -- Locked-in syndrome -- Migraine headaches -- Narcolepsy (and cataplexy) -- Pathological déjà vu (and jamais vu) -- Phantom sensations (including phantom limb pain) -- Prosopagnosia -- Seizures -- Sleeping beauty syndrome (Kleine-Levin syndrome) -- Social-emotional agnosias -- Somatoparaphrenia -- Synesthesia -- Tinnitus -- Topographical disorientation -- Vertigo -- Visual object agnosia.