Description: This book provides a unique perspective on what the effects of brain damage are, seen through the eyes of doctors or neurosurgeons who have themselves suffered a brain injury or brain illness. Each of the personal accounts, written over the past 120 years, is accompanied by commentary by the author which critically examines the experiences of the sufferer, relating them to current issues in clinical neurology and cognitive neuroscience. Kapur provides an introduction to each contribution and, in a final overview chapter, combines the lessons learned from all the articles. More than 50 personal stories cover a wide range of conditions, including memory disorders, lanaguage disorders, visual disorders, Parkinsons disease, stroke, brain tumour, head injury and epilepsy.

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