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 J. Klatsky, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oswego State University of NY http://www.oswego.edu/~klatsky
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From: Jeff Bartel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:16 AM
To: TIPS
Subject: Using Brain Damage to Teach Brain Part Function
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 obvious ones like H.M. (or Clive
Wearing) when discussing the hippocampus (though I typically cover these
in the memory chapter instead), individuals that have had strokes that
damage Broca's or Wernicke's areas, and, of course, our beloved Phinneas
Gage.
Are there others you (and the students) find particularly interesting?
Jeff
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Department of Psychology, Kansas State University
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