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Shadow Over My Brain: A Battle Against Parkinson's Disease - Softcover

Sacks, Oliver; Todes, Cecil

 
9780900075865: Shadow Over My Brain: A Battle Against Parkinson's Disease

Synopsis

Written by a psychiatrist and analyst who has a personal 20-year history with Parkinson's disease, Dr Todes documents his attempts to understand the disease and control the effects through a variety of conventional and more heroic treatments including L.dopa and even foetal brain implant surgery.

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About the Author

Cecil Todes was educated in South Africa. After completing his clinical studies in dentistry, he came to England and qualified in medicine at the West London Hospital. He qualified as a psychoanalyst in 1968 and worked as a Consultant in the NHS for twenty years.

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