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The unmapped mind : a memoir of neurology, multiple sclerosis and learning how to live

Donlan, Christian2019
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Shortly after his daughter Leontine was born, Christian Donlan's world shifted an inch to the left. He started to miss light switches and door handles when reaching for them. He would injure himself in a hundred stupid ways every day. First playful and then maddening, these strange experiences were the early symptoms of multiple sclerosis, an incurable and degenerative neurological disease. As his young daughter starts to investigate the world around her, he too finds himself exploring a new landscape - the shifting and bewildering territory of the brain. He is a tourist in his own body, a stranger in a place that plays bizarre tricks on him, from dizzying double vision to mystifying memory loss.
Author:
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2019.
Collation:
x, 292 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: UK: Viking, 2018.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780241980934 (pbk)
Dewey class:
362.1968340092362.196834362.196
Language:
English
BRN:
2774191
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