Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain

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It is not like the books by Oliver Sacks, because it describes common brain diseases more than rare ones, which makes it less exciting than it could have been, no matter how touching the stories about Parkinson's and ALS sufferers are. It's surprising that the first cuts aren't done by candy stripers, followed by maintenance staff and kitchen workers. Engagingly written, informative, often funny, it also manages to be moving without slipping into the sentimentality that too often infests medical writing. Perhaps he should flag those cases with social services, though I accept it must be difficult where there is no proof. Take the lesson the author gave a medical student when he said ‘if at the right moment you can combine experience, logic, and leaps of imagination, you’ll get your patients where they need to go’ (page 31).

Very disappointed given this is for my university BSc (Hons) degree, lifelong psychology collection and part of a birthday gift from a dear friend of mine. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It is very alien to the British to applaud oneself or one's accomplishments, whereas Americans jump up and down and shout out how proud they are of themselves, this makes British people cringe. However, it makes much more exciting television, so the producers now have got the British to run around arms in the air shouting out and generally looking awkard and embarrassed. In his peculiar way, he has indicated that he is oriented to his location, but not oriented to the time or to his situation.

She speaks with a strong North Shore accent, and despite her downscale style of dress, she has above-average verbal skills: she listens carefully, processes information quickly, and answers helpfully. It is a place where the strangest and most challenging cases are sent to be sorted out, cases whose complexity would tax the resources of smaller hospitals.

We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads. Allan Ropper's Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain, cowritten with Brian Burrell, is a first-person narrative about hospital neurology. Among them is Elliott, the neurologist with whom Ropper shares his term of ward duty, who is his temperamental opposite.Ropper and Brian David Burrell comprehensively explain, through the lived experiences of a number of patients, the complex and sometimes utterly bizarre nature of the brain and the things that can go wrong with it.