The exceptional brain and how it changed the world
By: Robert M. Kaplan
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Crows Nest, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781742374444
Subjects: Health and hygiene; Diseases; Thought and thinking; History; Brain Diseases; Brain; Diseases and history; Famous Persons; Mental Disorders; Intellect; Heads of state
Description: Dr Robert Kaplan, a forensic-psychiatrist and researcher, set out to explore the various brain diseases or conditions that have made some people very famous (or infamous), and often changed the course of history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Daidalos; title: Heinrich Klüver; title: Nqabayi; title: Norman Geschwind; title: The prophet Ezekiel; title: Leonardo da Vinci; title: Antoine Laurent Jessé Bayle; title: Joseph Lis; title: Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Gélineau; title: Vincent van Gogh; title: Bertha Pappenheim; title: Eugen Bleuler; title: Vaslav Nijinsky; title: Hans Berger; title: Frida Kahlo; title: Woody Guthrie; title: Trebitsch Lincolm; title: Arthur Inman; title: Howard Hughes; title: Constantin von Economo; title: Jack Ruby; title: Adolf Hitler; title: Conclusion.