Les livres de l'auteur bogousslavsky

The development of one of the most intriguing conditions in medicine

Hysteria is probably the condition which best illustrates the tight connection between neurology and psychiatry. While it has been known since antiquity, its renewed studies during the 19th century were mainly due to the work of Jean-Martin Charcot and his school in Paris.
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Gustave Roussy (1874-1948), figure notoire de la médecine, notamment en cancérologie, demeure en fait une personnalité complexe et peu connue. Naturalisé français, ce Suisse fortuné, héritier de la famille Nestlé, sera d'abord un neurologue réputé. Durant la Première Guerre mondiale, il traque les soldats traumatisés qu'il considère comme des simulateurs.
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The evolution of a medical "specialty"Neuropsychology has become a very important aspect for neurologists in clinical practice as well as in research. Being a specialized field in psychology, its long history is based on different historical developments in brain science and clinical neurology.
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After a period in which neurology and psychiatry have become more and more defined, neurologists’ interest in psychiatric topics, and vice versa, has increased. This book provides readers with an overview of the most representative neuropsychiatric syndromes such as Ganser and Capgras syndromes. It fills an existing gap in current literature and reintroduces a clinical approach.
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Classical and modern literature is full of patients with interesting neurological, cognitive, or psychiatric diseases, often including detailed and accurate descriptions, which suggests the authors moere inspired by observations of real people. In many cases these literary portrayals of diseases even predate their forma) identification by medical science.
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An intriguing and enlightening read

The third part of Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists presents painters, musicians, and writers who had to fight against an acute or chronic neurological disease. Sometimes this fight was without success (e.g.
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More on the relationship between brain disease and creativity

?Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists - Part 2' presents more writers, philosophers, musicians, painters and film directors who developed some form of neurological dysfunction and whose style and output changed following a stroke or other cerebral disorder.
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Fascinating insights into the relationship between brain disease and creativity

The study of how a neurological disorder can change the artistic activity and behavior of creative people is a largely unexplored field.
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La neurologie est l'une des spécialités médicales qui a connu les plus grands développements au cours de la dernière décennie, mais elle conserve un abord difficile pour le clinicien en raison de son apparente complexité.
[lire la quatrième du livre Interprétation des troubles neurologiques]