Oliver Sacks' books are all good sources for examples of the effects of
brain damage as well as other physiological disorders. I have my current
neuroscience books at home. Some of those include excellent case studies.
Let me know if you are interested and I'll email the references
Gary
Gary
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Jeff Bartel wrote:
A few weeks ago we discussed using case studies of people with various
types of brain damage to teach physiological psychology (especially in
General Psychology classes). Out of curiousity, which examples do you
tend to use? I can think of a couple
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Jeff Bartel went:
A few weeks ago we discussed using case studies of people with various
types of brain damage to teach physiological psychology (especially in
General Psychology classes). Out of curiousity, which examples do you
tend to use?
Whenever I lectured about
Example 1: I like a report on CNN about a girl who experience brain trauma then
started writting all her school work as a mirror image. None of the neurologist
could explain this and insisted that she must be fake it. The teachers were
required to use a mirror to grade her papers as a
