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More than sorrow : a mystery
Hannah Manning was once an internationally renowned journalist and war correspondent; today she's a woman suffering from a traumatic brain injury. Unable to concentrate, full of pain, and haunted by her memories, Hannah goes to Ontario to her sister's small vegetable farm to recover. But Hannah experiences strange visions of a woman emerging from the icy-cold mist. Is the woman real or the product of her damaged brain? Which would be worse?
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Narrating stroke: the life-writing and fiction of brain damage
Cerebro-vascular events are, after neurodegenerative disorders, the most frequent cause of brain damage that leads to the patient's impaired cognitive and/or bodily functioning. While the medico-scientific discourse related to stroke suggests that patients experience a change in identity and self-concept, the present analysis focuses on the patients' personal presentation of their experience to, first, highlight their way of thinking and feeling and, second, contribute to the clinician's actual understanding of the meaning of stroke within the life of each individual. As stroke ‘victims’ necessarily speak from the position of having undergone very abrupt degeneration followed by being confronted with a gradual relocation within their ‘recovery’, the present study addresses how narrative texts describe the condition, that is, the insult itself and its impairing consequences for body and mind, and how patients portray themselves within their illness. Furthermore, given that all illness narrative must remain non-representative, especially when exploring conditions that impair cognitive abilities, autobiographically inspired fiction, equally, contributes to neuroscientific perspectives on embodiment: it gives further insight into how the condition is perceived and alerts us to those aspects of the experience that are understood as particularly momentous.
Journal Article
Somebody please tell me who I am
Wounded in Iraq while his Army unit is on convoy and treated for many months for traumatic brain injury, the first person Ben remembers from his earlier life is his autistic brother.
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Electric mind
This film follows four people suffering from brain disorders, who are undergoing groundbreaking medical treatments involving the electric stimulation of the brain. The prospect of manipulating our minds with machines has for decades been considered science fiction, but the accelerating advancements of brain sciences today are materializing into a genuine cure for the millions of people suffering from brain disorders. Each of the patients, a ten-year old born with severe epilepsy, a clinically depressed octogenarian, a photographer with bipolar disorder, and a young father who suffers from dystonia, undergoes a series of controversial treatments from electric shock therapy to invasive neurosurgery. The film raises questions about man and machines, ethics and technology, our body, and the mystery of our mind.
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She's not sorry
\"Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working full time as an ICU nurse, when a patient named Caitlin arrives in her ward with a traumatic brain injury. They say she jumped from a bridge and plunged over twenty feet to the train tracks below. When a witness comes forward with new details about Caitlin's fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was a crime committed? Did someone actually push Caitlin, and if so, who... and why? Meghan lets herself get close to Caitlin until she's deeply entangled in the mystery surrounding her. Only when it's too late, does she realize that she and her daughter could be the next victims....\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Brain-to-brain communication: Science fiction becomes reality
ISEs involvement key to developing technology for workplace, medical uses I In the past several decades, the idea of interfacing the human brain and a computer, once only imagined in science fiction, has materialized via brain-computer interface (Brain-Computer Interfaces Handbook: Technological and Theoretical Advances, Chang S. Nam, Anton Nijholt and Fabien Lotte, 2018). A BCI (e.g., EEG-based motor-imagery BCI) reads a sender's brain activity and then sends it to an interface, e.g., transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) that writes the delivered brain activity to a receiving brain. Since its proof of concept by Miguel Pais-Vieira (\"A Brain-To-Brain Interface for Real-Time Sharing of Sensorimotor Information,\" Pais-Vieira, Mikhail Lebedev, Carolina Kunicki, Jing Wang and Miguel A.L. Nicolelis, 2013), B2BI has been demonstrated in both animal models (\"Building an Organic Computing Device with Multiple Interconnected Brains,\" Miguel Pais-Vieira, Gabriela Chiuffa, Mikhail Lebedev and Miguel A.L. Nicolelis, 2013; 2015) and humans (\"A Direct Brainto-Brain Interface in Humans,\" Rajesh P. N. Rao, Andrea Stocco, Matthew Bryan, Devapratim Sarma, Tiffany M. Youngquist, Joseph Wu and Chantel S. Prat, 2014; \"Conscious Brain-ToBrain Communication in Humans Using Non-Invasive Technologies, Carles Grau, Romuald Ginhoux, Alejandro Riera, Thanh Lam Nguyen, Hubert Chauvat, Michel Berg, Julia L. Amengual, Alvaro Pascual-Leone and Giulio Ruffini, 2014) where same or different brain regions are invasively or noninvasively recorded and stimulated in many interesting applications, ranging from simply transmitting binary information (Grau et al., 2014) to creating biological neural networks (Pais-Vieira et al., 2015). Specifically, it offers potential applications in communication, specifically in patients with neurological damage (\"Ethical Issues in Neuroprosthetics,\" Walter Glannon, 2016; \"Brainto-Brain Interfaces: When Reality Meets Science Fiction,\" Nicolelis, 2014). Breakthroughs will come when the EEG headsets become easier to wear; neurostimulation technology advances - such as transductor arrays for focused ultrasonics stimulation (FUS) becoming more common, cheaper and easier to fit into a helmet; data transfer rates go up; or when we can send and receive data in the brain using one technology (\"Optimizing Computer-Brain Interface Parameters for Non-invasive Brain-to-Brain Interface,\" John LaRocco and Dong-Guk Paeng, 2020).
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