In another patient, the right hemisphere preferred a date with a go-go dancer.
The patient could not make up her mind because she actually had two minds in conflict. Sperry showed me a video of the right hand and the left battling it out over what to wear. The right hemisphere goes for flashy colorful clothes and instructs the left hand accordingly, and the left hemisphere goes for more conservative apparel and instructs the right hand to pick accordingly. In these patients, the left hemisphere takes charge of the right hand, and the right takes charge of the left.
Patten recounts his most profound, entertaining, and uncommon experiences with patients throughout his 34-year medical career.Learn about the strange case of the teenage girl who got pulled out of class. That fact was demonstrated by Sperry’s studies of humans who had their corpus callosum cut for the control of generalized seizures. In Neurology Rounds with the Maverick, clinical neurologist Dr. The left hemisphere has its own agenda and often lacks feeling and rapport. If the right hemisphere is suppressed, the left takes over. Read it to appreciate the good, the bad, the terrible, and the densely human anecdotes that document the past and light the way for the future of medicine.“People with right hemisphere dysfunction are often sons-of-bitches, and this may have been Shy’s problem. Neurology Rounds with the Maverick presents an authentic look inside some of the most complex, strange, and fascinating neurological cases of the last half-century of medicine. As well, enjoy learning about when Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich came to America to be treated for atrophy in his right hand and shipping magnate Aristotle Socrates Onassis’s consultations about Myasthenia Gravis. Patten’s encounters with artist George Rodrigue as he lost his memory and physicist Stephen Hawking when he was considering experimental ALS treatment. Patten’s own mother) correctly predicting their own deaths. Then consider the 14-year-old who faked grand mal seizures for more than a year to get away from her sexually abusive father.Ĭonsider the awkward situation of the hairdresser who heard voices from God instructing her to stab her customers with her scissors or the well-documented phenomenon of patients (including Dr. Learn about the strange case of the teenage girl who got pulled out of class for medical treatment because she couldn’t stop laughing. Patten recounts his most profound, entertaining, and uncommon experiences with patients throughout his 34-year medical career. In Neurology Rounds with the Maverick, clinical neurologist Dr.
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