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- A comprehensive history of encephalitis lethargica
- Provides an accurate picture of the nature and course of the encephalitis lethargica epidemic
- Features extensive historical and scientific research
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Despite its brief history, encephalitis lethargica played a major role in a variety medical discussions between the two World Wars, as this epitome of neuropsychiatric disease – attacking both motor and mental functions – appeared just as the separation of neurology and psychiatry had reached a critical point. Encephalitis lethargica sufferers presented an unprecedented combination of neurologic and psychiatric symptoms – including previously puzzling phenomenaprimarily associated with schizophrenia and hysteria, as well as behavioral changes and attention deficit disorders in children – that not only underscored the unity of mind and movement in the CNS, but also illuminated the critical role played by subcortical structures in consciousness and other higher mental functions that had formerly been associated with the soul and more recently presumed to be localized to the human cerebral cortex. Encephalitis lethargica exerted a greater influence on clinical and theoretic neuroscientific thought between the two World Wars than any other single disorder and had an enduring impact upon neurology and psychiatry.
This book will be of interest to an educated audience active or interested in clinical (neurology, psychiatry, psychology) or laboratory neuroscience, particularly those interested in neuropsychiatry, as well as to those interested in the history of the biomedical sciences.
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Book Title: Encephalitis Lethargica
Book Subtitle: The Mind and Brain Virus
Authors: Paul Bernard Foley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0384-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0383-2Published: 07 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-7964-6Published: 07 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-0384-9Published: 07 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 1083
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Virology, Biomedicine general, Human Physiology