Ebook: Awakenings
Author: Sacks Oliver
- Tags: Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease -- Case studies., Epidemic encephalitis -- Complications -- Case studies., Dopa -- Therapeutic use -- Case studies., Dopa -- Therapeutic use., Epidemic encephalitis -- Complications., Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease.
- Year: 1999
- Publisher: Knopf Canada
- Language: English
- epub
Describes the author's work with institutionalized patients at Mount Carmel Hospital and the dramatic effects of the drug L-DOPA on twenty patients suffering from encephalitic Parkinsonism. Read more...
Abstract: Describes the author's work with institutionalized patients at Mount Carmel Hospital and the dramatic effects of the drug L-DOPA on twenty patients suffering from encephalitic Parkinsonism.
A series of case studies of some of the people who developed a sleeping-sickness after World War I and remained in a sleep state until given the drug L-Dopa. Also describes their lives, the transformation after awakening, and then describes parts of the film made from these case studies. -- Publisher description