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Summary Of The Man Who Brook His Wife For A Hat By Oliver Sacks
After reading through the book “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales,” by Oliver Sacks, one chapter in particular really stuck out to me for a few reasons. This book reminded me of the TV show “House”, where this doctor gets a bunch of unusual cases and has to figure out what is wrong and it seems like Oliver Sacks in this book. This whole book I found to be extremely interesting and hard to put down so it was tough to think of one chapter to focus on. I decided to narrow in on chapter 19, titled “Murder,” because I have always enjoyed crime mystery books and TV shows like Law and Order or Dexter. This story also reminded me of one of my cousins who had an epileptic episode she didn’t remember and later woke up …show more content…
A little more about her story, no she didn’t murder anyone, but she woke up in her bead to find that there was blood all over her pillow, floor and a spotted trail leading out her door. She followed the blood trail downstairs to the kitchen where she found blood all over the cupboards, floor, and in the bathroom as well. Then she realized her fingertip was cut off and dangling by skin and she had a big gash on the back of her head. She went to the ER and got stitched up and they had her come back a couple days later to get tested for epilepsy. She ended up having a seizure and was diagnosed with epilepsy. To this day she has no idea what had happened or how. I’m curious if there is a way she could get back that memory, like the head injury did for Donald. I’m also curious if her seizures are in her temporal lobe or extending down into the amygdala and limbic structures like he had. This also raises a lot of more questions for me about epilepsy and memory and I just want to be able to learn in all and take it all in to get a better understand of people and their
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