Julien Bogousslavsky

Michael P. Barnes

Bruce H. Dobkin

Covering neuroscience and rehabilitation strategies, an essential handbook and reference for multidisciplinary stroke rehabilitation teams.

Recovery After Stroke

Louis R. Caplan

An essential resource for diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients outside the usual clinical categories.

Uncommon Causes of Stroke

Stroke Syndromes, second edition, combined with Uncommon Causes of Stroke, together represent a unique clinical resource.

Stroke Syndromes

M. G. Hennerici

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. Mozart, Baudelaire, de Kooning, Proust, F ssli, Heine, Fellini, Visconti and others are all striking examples of how extraordinary creativity can be challenged and modified or destroyed and restored, all within the drama of a disease. When brain disease challenges the capabilities of artists, the changes that subsequently occur in their work provide a unique opportunity to explore the mysteries of creativity. This may also lead to a better understanding on how certain artists developed, particularly when the course of a disease corresponds with what is generally recognized as a new chapter in their work. This book offers a fascinating read for neurologists, psychiatrists, general physicians and anybody interested in art, literature, music and film.

Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists

Jean-Martin Charcot, the iconic 19th century French scientist, is still regarded today as the most famous and celebrated neurologist in the world. Despite the development of strong independent schools of thought in the USA, UK and Germany, his 'Salpêtrière' school has become symbolic of the early development and rise of neurological practice and research. This book presents a fresh look at the origins of nervous system medicine, and at the fate of Charcot's school and pupils. Special emphasis is placed upon the parallels and interactions between developments in neurology and mental medicine, clearly demonstrating that Charcot is not only the father of clinical neurology, but also wielded enormous influence upon the field we would come to know as psychiatry. Providing new insights into the life and work of Charcot and his pupils, this book will make fascinating reading for neurologists, psychiatrists, physicians and historians.

A Forgotten History of Neurology and Psychiatry

Following Charcot

Jeffrey L. Cummings

This book, first published in 2000, is the first clinical reference work to address the relationship of focal brain dysfunction to disorders of mood.

Behavior and Mood Disorders in Focal Brain Lesions

Olivier Godefroy

The care of stroke patients has changed dramatically. As well as improvements in the emergency care of the condition, there have been marked advances in our understanding, management and rehabilitation of residual deficits. This book is about the care of stroke patients, focusing on behavioural and cognitive problems. It provides a comprehensive review of the field covering the diagnostic value of these conditions, in the acute and later phases, their requirements in terms of treatment and management and the likelihood and significance of long-term disability. This book will appeal to all clinicians involved in the care of stroke patients, as well as to neuropsychologists, other rehabilitation therapists and research scientists investigating the underlying neuroscience.

The Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology of Stroke

Marc Fisher

New, exciting, and innovative advances in the field of cerebrovascular medicine continue to occur at a rapid pace. The fourth edition of Current Review of Cerebrovascular Disease provides an update on these rapidly evolving topics and a gives the reader insight into the thought-provoking issues in stroke neurology that have undergone tremendous changes during the past two years. The volume covers four main sections: basic science, diagnostics, clinical aspects, and treatment.

Current Review of Cerebrovascular Disease

Owing to the increased interest in brain ischemia and the new therapeutic options from pharmaceutical companies for the treatment of acute stroke, Professor Julien Bogousslavsky, one of the world's stroke experts, has revised his best-selling book. It is the emergence of huge possibilities in the management of stroke - ultra-early diagnosis, intensive care, surgical and other interventional therapies, thrombolysis, anti-ischemic drugs and prevention of immediate recurrence - which necessiates this timely update.

Acute Stroke Treatment

Bogousslavsky and Fisher's Textbook of Neurology promises to be the one-volume comprehensive reference that gives a straight look at the essentials of neurology. Its easy-to-read writing style, detailed indexing, and effective chapter outlines provide quicker and easier access to the information residents and practitioners need to effectively diagnose and treat patients. In addition, with a list of 82 contributors from 19 countries around the world, the text delivers an international perspective not available in other one-volume series. * - The most comprehensive coverage of neurologic principles * - Easy-to-read, comfortable writing style * - Useful chapter outlines and detailed indexing for quick reference

Textbook of Neurology

Most strokes are attributed to atherosclerosis of neck and intracranial arteries, brain embolism from the heart, and penetrating artery disease; these are discussed in detail in many other books. This compendium fills an important niche by providing authoritative discussions on the other, less common causes of stroke, including various forms of angiitis, coagulation disorders, infective, paraneoplastic and metabolic disorders that may be associated with stroke, and a number of rare syndromes such as Eales disease and Fabry's disease. This new edition contains detailed, up-to-date information about the nature, diagnosis, and treatment of those relatively uncommon types of cerebrovascular disease that cause strokes. It is therefore a unique scientific and clinical resource that provides a useful reference to help physicians diagnose and treat stroke patients who do not fit well into the usual clinical categories. New chapters include stroke in patients with Lyme disease, scleroderma, Cogan's syndrome, Chagas' disease, and HIV.

Plus de quatre-vingts ans après sa parution, Nadja reste le livre d’André Breton le plus connu avec le Manifeste du surréalisme, certainement celui qui a été le plus lu par un large public mais aussi le plus énigmatique. L’énigme est avant tout Nadja, cette jeune femme que Breton rencontre de façon éphémère juste avant son entrée dans la folie. Nadja fut internée le 21 mars 1927, c’est-à-dire moins de cinq mois après sa rencontre avec Breton, le 4 octobre 1926, et elle demeura en milieu psychiatrique fermé jusqu’à son décès en 1941. Pour bien des lecteurs, la première réaction, instinctive, est celle de la compassion, d’une profonde empathie pour Nadja, contrastant avec un certain rejet du narrateur Breton, en comparaison jugé froid et égoïste. Les lettres de Nadja offrent un singulier pendant au Nadja de Breton. Ces écrits s’associent et se croisent à travers leurs contradictions pour nous offrir la vision fugitive mais cinglante d’une existence qui va basculer sans retour. Cet ouvrage nous révèle le véritable visage de Nadja à travers des documents inédits ou peu connus.

un amour juste avant la folie

Nadja et Breton

C. Bassetti

H. Baezner

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. Shostakovich, Schumann, Wolf, Pascal), but often a dynamic and paradoxical creativity of the clinical disorder was integrated into their artistic production (e.g. Klee, Ramuz). Occasionally, some even wrote the first report of a medical condition they observed in themselves, like Stendhal who made a detailed report of aphasic transient ischemic attacks before dying of stroke shortly thereafter. In rarer instances, a neurological disease was inaccurately attributed to an artist in order to explain certain features of his work (de Chirico, Schiele). Some chapters in this publication focus on neurological conditions reported in artistic work, including descriptions by Shakespeare and Dumas. Bringing new light to both artists and neurological conditions, this book serves as a valuable and entertaining read for neurologists, psychiatrists, physicians, and anybody interested in arts, literature and music.

Julien Bogousslavsky

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