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Brain injuries can result in highly specific and surprising changes in behaviour that have revealed to us how the mind works.
The brain is the most complicated object in the known universe. After spending millennia trying to understand our ever-changing world, the brain is now turning its capacities for reasoning, remembering, and understanding inward, as it tries to understand itself.
The biggest breakthroughs in neuroscience have come mostly by accident. These accidents didn’t happen in research labs. They happened on railway job sites, in showers, on bicycles, in cars or were the result of infections from uncommon diseases.
When an individual suffers brain damage as the result of an accident or illness, the negative effects can be profound — life altering and lifelong — yet the insights offered by the effects of these injuries have been revolutionary for neuroscientists. Through an examination of landmark cases of traumatic brain injury, Dr. Lorin J. Elias explains how each case has expanded our understanding of the mind.
The brain is the most complicated object in the known universe. After spending millennia trying to understand our ever-changing world, the brain is now turning its capacities for reasoning, remembering, and understanding inward, as it tries to understand itself.
The biggest breakthroughs in neuroscience have come mostly by accident. These accidents didn’t happen in research labs. They happened on railway job sites, in showers, on bicycles, in cars or were the result of infections from uncommon diseases.
When an individual suffers brain damage as the result of an accident or illness, the negative effects can be profound — life altering and lifelong — yet the insights offered by the effects of these injuries have been revolutionary for neuroscientists. Through an examination of landmark cases of traumatic brain injury, Dr. Lorin J. Elias explains how each case has expanded our understanding of the mind.
Price: $21.99
Pages: 248
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Publication Date:
03 March 2026
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781459755130
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, Cognitive and behavioural neuroscience, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience
Lorin J. Elias is a professor of psychology at the University of Saskatchewan. He completed his Ph.D. in behavioural neuroscience at the University of Waterloo and has been studying the brain for over twenty-five years. He is the author of Side Effects: How Left-Brain Right-Brain Differences Shape Everyday Behaviour and his research has been featured in popular newspapers and magazines around the world. Lorin lives in Saskatoon, SK.
- Preface
- Chapter 1 – Personality Change: Phineas Gage
- Chapter 2 – Language: Mr. Leborgne
- Chapter 3 – Alien Limb Syndrome
- Chapter 4 - Anosognosia
- Chapter 5 – The Split-Brain: V.P.
- Chapter 6 – Fear: S.M.
- Chapter 7 – Memory: H.M.
- Chapter 8 – Memory: Clive Wearing
- Chapter 9 – Visual Agnosia: JBR
- Chapter 10 – Deep Dyslexia: G.R.
- Chapter 11 – Reading: Monsieur C.
- Chapter 12 – Facial Recognition: P.S.
- Chapter 13 – Apraxia: Mr. T.
- Chapter 14 – Bálint-Holmes Syndrome
- Chapter 15 – Hemispatial Neglect
- Chapter 16 – Visually guided movement: D.F.
- Chapter 17 – Blindsight: G.Y.
- Conclusion