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The ghost in my brain
Clark Elliott
Published
2015
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Written in
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
| Statement | Clark Elliott, Ph.D. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | RC394.A5 E45 2015 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xxiv, 312 pages |
| Number of Pages | 312 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL27181804M |
| ISBN 10 | 0525426566 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780525426561 |
| LC Control Number | 2015010566 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 893895150 |
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Synopsis of the Book: The “Ghost in My Brain” is a fascinating and passionate book about how a concussion can wreck a life – and how avant-garde treatments like visual puzzles and special eyeglasses can quickly rewire the brain into recovery.
Author Clark Elliott is a computer science professor at DePaul University in Chicago, by: 2. The Ghost in My Brain is an intriguing trip through traumatic brain injury, written by a university professor who suffered a severe concussion in a car accident and dealt with confoundingly debilitating effects for years afterward, until he finally, serendipitously, came across two specialists who had developed unusual therapies that produce significant improvements in the injured brain/5.
The book is a must read for anyone in emergency medicine, trauma care, neurology, and primary care, as well as concussion sufferers and their families. This book will change how healthcare workers care for patients with both mild and serious head injuries, as well as provide better understanding by those that are close to the concussed.
Synopsis of the Book: The “Ghost in My Brain” is a fascinating and passionate book about how a concussion can wreck a life – and how avant-garde treatments like visual puzzles and special eyeglasses can quickly rewire the brain into recovery.
Author Clark Elliott is a computer science professor at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois/5(). But the meaning of the title goes beyond this duality.
Readers will come to understand that the ghost in my book is the sense of my true self—the “me” that was sent into exile in the moment of a car crash.
Years later I underwent cognitive treatment based on the new principles of brain plasticity.5/5(1). In The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge described the most important breakthrough in our understanding of the brain in years: the discovery that the brain can change its own structure and function in response to mental experience - what we call revolutionary new book shows, for the first time, how the amazing process of neuroplastic healing really works.
Remarkably, Elliott kept detailed notes throughout his experience, from the moment of impact to the final stages of his recovery, astounding documentation that is the basis of this fascinating book. The Ghost in My Brain gives hope to the millions who suffer from head injuries each year, and provides a unique and informative window into the.
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Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor with a research career in artificial intelligence to a humbled man struggling to get through a single day.
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InClark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. From The Ghost in My Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get it Back, on sale now. Reprinted by arrangement with Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
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This site is like a library, Use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. The Ghost in my Brain Clark Elliott. A personal account of suffering from a concussion. Clark Elliott had a short blackout as the result of a fairly minor automobile accident.
His symptoms were anything but minor. For over a decade he dealt with pain in his skull, balance problems, thinking for long period of time and nausea. Ghost in my Brain April 4, Some concussives - during periods of brain fatigue - are incapable of such a seemingly simple task: you could offer them a thousand dollars to choose a hand - any hand - but they still might not be able to do so, because they can't decide.".
That book, Ghost in My Brain, has since drawn patients to the Mind-Eye Institute from all over the world. As one Mind-Eye patient commented, “When I was reading the book, I had tears in my eyes because someone had put into words what I felt – the emotional toll that traumatic brain injury takes.”.
The Ghost in My Brain audiobook, by Clark Elliott The dramatic story of one man’s recovery offers new hope to those suffering from concussions and other brainClark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended.
Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor with a research career in artificial. Praise For The Ghost in My Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get It Back “This is a remarkable document, by a remarkable person, the most meticulous and informative account I have ever read of the effects of a traumatic brain injury on a single mind.The Ghost in My Brain is a powerful record of what life is like as a concussive: the endless and exhausting need for creativity as one navigates through days filled with bizarre changes in perception, strange social dilemmas and a sometimes overwhelming sense of alienation.
