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This book links to the more clinical/neuropsychology side of the course, and so compliments Opening Skinner’s Box very well as the books show you different facets of psychology. The story telling style along with the clinical notes makes this book really enjoyable to read and I found it made the conditions incredibly memorable. The first story is of a man who has slowly lost his ability to access his knowledge via vision, known as visual agnosia, and the many other stories include amnesia, Tourrette’s syndrome, Neglect due to right hemisphere damage and Autism. This follows cases that Sacks has come across as a Neurologist and each chapter first gives the story and the characters within the case and then explains the clinical aspects behind the disorders described. The book that I would definitely recommend and have enjoyed reading again and again is The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hatby Oliver Sacks, which was recommended by my college tutor.

Review by Lizzie (Experimental Psychology) It is a fantastic book to make you begin to think about the way in which our brains function. The way that this book is written really makes you relate to each case study on a very personal level, whilst still giving a lot of detail about the clinical aspects of each case. This study provided a really interesting insight into the difference between long and short term memory and the formation of new memories. As a result of this, he believes he is still a solider in the Second World War, as he is unable to remember anything that has happened since that time. Therefore, Mr P really is unable to distinguish between his wife and a hat! For me, this was the first time that I considered that different senses are associated with different areas of the brain.Īnother particularly interesting case in this book describes a Jimmie G who has Korsakoff’s syndrome and is unable to form new memories. However, if he were able to touch it or it made a sound, he would immediately recognise the object. For example, if Mr P were presented with an object he would not be able to tell what it was by just looking at it. Visual agnosia is effectively the inability to recognise objects by sight alone. The title of the book gets its name from one of the patients, Mr P, who is suffering from visual agnosia. This is a series of short case studies of some of the most notable patients Sacks encountered during his career. One book that particularly inspired me to study Biomedical Sciences was The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by neurologist Oliver Sacks.

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