Identity Unknown: How Acute Brain Disease Can Destroy Knowledge of Oneself and Others by Wilson, Barbara A.

Identity Unknown: How Acute Brain Disease Can Destroy Knowledge of Oneself and Others (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781848722842)

Vendor: Barbara A. Wilson
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Format: Hardcover
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Identity Unknown: How Acute Brain Disease Can Destroy Knowledge of Oneself and Others by Wilson, Barbara A.

Identity Unknown: How Acute Brain Disease Can Destroy Knowledge of Oneself and Others

$225.00
Identity Unknown: How Acute Brain Disease Can Destroy Knowledge of Oneself and Others by Wilson, Barbara A.

Identity Unknown: How Acute Brain Disease Can Destroy Knowledge of Oneself and Others

$225.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book gives a rare, poignant and in depth understanding of what it is like to live with the severe after effects of brain damage caused by a viral infection of the brain. It tells the story of Claire, a survivor of encephalitis, who was left with an inability to recognise faces, also called prosopagnosia. It describes our current knowledge of the condition, and offers a unique report on daily living with a condition which many of us have, for too long, known too little about. Identity Unknown will be essential reading for professionals working in rehabilitation settings, and will also be of great interest to people who have sustained a brain injury and their families.



Author: Barbara A. Wilson,Claire Robertson,Joe Mole
ISBN-10: 1848722842
ISBN-13: 9781848722842
Publisher: Psychology Press
Language: English
Published: 10/21/2014
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.90d
By Barbara A. Wilson
By Barbara A. Wilson
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Barbara A. Wilson is a neuropsychologist and founder of the Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Ely, UK. She has worked in brain injury rehabilitation for over 35 years and has published 21 books, 270 journal articles and chapters and 8 neuropsychological tests. Among her many awards she has an OBE and two lifetime achievement awards. She is the editor of the journal Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, which she founded in 1991.

Claire Robertson is a nurse, mother, wife and friend. She qualified as a State Registered Nurse, a Sick Children's nurse and a nurse for Special and Intensive Care of the Newborn. She survived Herpes simplex encephalitis in 2004, which left her with a very severe loss of knowledge of people and their identity. She regularly gives talks about her difficulties and the experience of life after brain injury.

Joe Mole is a psychology assistant at the Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabiliation in Ely, UK. He is currently involved in research into the neuropsychology of face recognition, navigation and time perception.

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