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- Nov 07, 2020
Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.
- Different Areas
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- Nov 07, 2020
A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.
- Dementia
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.
- Delirium
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When memories fade, can one ever really return home?
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
- Observation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Beverly and I got together in 1992, and I moved to be with her in the little round house she'd built in the middle of 20 acres of woods near Amity, I found myself immersed in a natural setting that I responded to with all my being.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.
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- Nov 07, 2020