Ebook: Awakenings
Author: Sacks Oliver
- Tags: Dopa--Therapeutic use, Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease, Epidemic encephalitis--Complications, Case studies, Electronic books, Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease -- Case studies, Epidemic encephalitis -- Complications -- Case studies, Dopa -- Therapeutic use -- Case studies, Dopa -- Therapeutic use, Epidemic encephalitis -- Complications
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Knopf Canada
- City: New York
- Language: English
- epub
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.;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.
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