In the Shadow of MemoryIn December 1988 Floyd Skloot was stricken by a virus that targeted his brain, leaving him totally disabled and utterly changed. In the Shadow of Memory is an intimate picture of what it is like to find oneself possessed of a ravaged memory and unstable balance and confronted by wholesale changes in both cognitive and emotional powers. Skloot also explores the gradual reassembling of himself, putting together his scattered memories, rediscovering the meaning of childhood and family history, and learning a new way to be at home in the world. Combining the author’s skills as a poet and novelist, this book finds humor, meaning, and hope in the story of a fragmented life made whole by love and the courage to thrive. |
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... Brain Injury Association , more than two million Americans suffer traumatic brain injury every year , a total that does not include damage by disease . No one has yet explained the way a brain produces what we think of as consciousness ...
... Brain Injury Association , more than two million Americans suffer traumatic brain injury every year , a total that does not include damage by disease . No one has yet explained the way a brain produces what we think of as consciousness ...
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... brain cells at age one as we will ever have . This has been a fundamental tenet of neuroscience , yet it has also long been clear that people do recover - fully or in part — from brain injury . Some stroke victims relearn how to walk ...
... brain cells at age one as we will ever have . This has been a fundamental tenet of neuroscience , yet it has also long been clear that people do recover - fully or in part — from brain injury . Some stroke victims relearn how to walk ...
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... brain damaged by its steady exposure to the neurochemicals associated with that response . I had a damaged immune ... Brain Injury , " A blow to one part of the brain can trig- ger a massive release of normally well - controlled brain ...
... brain damaged by its steady exposure to the neurochemicals associated with that response . I had a damaged immune ... Brain Injury , " A blow to one part of the brain can trig- ger a massive release of normally well - controlled brain ...
Contents
Damaged Brain | 3 |
Confessions of a Demented Man | 18 |
In the Shadow of Memory | 29 |
Copyright | |
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