Madness and Memory

Madness and Memory
Author: Stanley B. Prusiner
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2014-04-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0300191146


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The author, a 1997 recipient of the Noble Prize in medicine, describes the years he spent researching and demonstrating how the infectious proteins known as prions were responsible for brain diseases and how his theory has now become widely accepted in the science establishment.


Madness and Memory
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: Stanley B. Prusiner
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-29 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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The author, a 1997 recipient of the Noble Prize in medicine, describes the years he spent researching and demonstrating how the infectious proteins known as pri
Patient H.M.
Language: en
Pages: 480
Authors: Luke Dittrich
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-11 - Publisher: Random House

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In the summer of 1953, maverick neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville performed a groundbreaking operation on an epileptic patient named Henry Molaison. But it
Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Susannah Cahalan
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-13 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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'My first serious blackout marked the line between sanity and insanity. Though I would have moments of lucidity over the coming days and weeks, I would never ag
Memories of Madness
Language: en
Pages: 532
Authors: Khushwant Singh
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-09-11 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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Independence for India, in 1947, came with a price: division on the basis of religion. In the communal riots that followed, hundreds of thousands were killed an
History Lessons
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Clifton Crais
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-19 - Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

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An acclaimed scholar tackles his greatest historical puzzle yet--his own abused past and tortured memory