Dr Frukacz, editor of the RANZCP NSW newsletter wrote in the June-July edition: EXCERPT: So, this is a book that is both informative, and enjoyable and easy to read. It is a book that can be recommended to family and carers of patients with organic brain disease to help them understand better and thereby cope better with what must at first sight seem strange and bizarre behaviour. Yet its capacity to make a topic that is usually dry and…..
Prof Parker, in launching Your Brain in Sickness and in Health made the following remarks: “The book is exceptional, somewhat so in content, but more in structure and style. As you’ve heard, he aims to describe and explore some of the behaviours and experiences associated with abnormal brain function. He describes broad territories such as dementia and narrow and intriguing topics such as ‘common sense’ and ‘abulia’. In terms of formal content the book is scholarly and informative. In terms…..
“It is first rate. Scholarly and informative, and I learned a lot. It captures you well – learned, empathic and with some dry wit”
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