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A master neurologist's clinical tales—both funny and profound—of the evolution of the brain.

As a sympathetic—and brilliant—brain detective, Harold Klawans treated people with a huge array of troubles, all of which boiled down to one complaint: something was wrong with their brains. From the woman suffering from "painful foot and moving toe syndrome" to the Indiana farmer who contacted a variant of mad cow disease from his herds of livestock, Klawans deduced a great deal from his patients, not only about the immediate causes of their ailments, but about the evolutionary underpinnings of their behavior.

ISBN-13: 9780393321845

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Norton - W. W. & Company - Inc.

Publication Date: 04-17-2001

Pages: 256

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.50(d)

The late Harold Klawans practiced neurology in Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of Toscanini's Fumble and Why Michael Couldn't Hit, among other books.

Table of Contents

Preface 9
Part 1 The Ascent of Cognitive Function
1. Defending the Cavewoman: The Window of Opportunity for Learning 15
2. A Lucy of My Very Own: Locating Handedness and Speech 37
3. The Gift of Speech: Frank Morrell and the Treatment of Acquired Epileptic Aphasia 56
4. Manganese Miners: Hard Wiring for Movement 73
5. I Never Read a Movie I Liked: The Architecture of Reading 88
6. One of These Things Is Not Like the Others: How Literacy Changes the Brain 110
7. The Music Goes Round and Round: But It Comes in Where? 121
Part 2 The Brain's Soft Spots: Programmed Cell Death, Prions, and Pain
8. My Lunch with Oliver: Why That Morning Was Different from All the Other Mornings 143
9. Two Sets of Brains: Something Old, Something "New" 154
10. Anticipation: Unto the Third Generation and Beyond 165
11. The Hermit of Thief River Falls: On First Meeting an Eponym 192
12. Mad Cows and Mad Markets: Ice-Nine and the Non-Darwinian Evolution of Man and Disease 212
13. Whatever Happened to Baby Neanderthal? An Afterthought 237
Index 245