Stories
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The enduring myth of the mad genius
There’s a fine line to tread between creativity and psychosis.
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In search of the ‘nature cure’
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.
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A story of death, trauma and austerity
Marienna Pope-Weidemann, whose teenage cousin Gaia died after going missing, advocates a rethink of our systems, which currently fail many in mental distress.
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The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Kq: Nervous System Diseases - Neurological Conditions - Groups
Date: 1998-1999Reference: SA/WHL/14/32/1Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Archives and manuscripts
"The Life of Aelius Aristides a Greek 'neurotic' - for comparison with the infirmities of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Ellis Barker etc"
Date: 1946Reference: PP/FPW/B.226/4/2Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Books
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Essays chiefly on the theory of paroxysmal diseases of the nervous system / by Marshall Hall.
Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.Date: [1849]- Books
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The sensory system of the facial nerve and its symptomatology / by J. Ramsay Hunt.
Hunt, James Ramsay, 1872-1937.Date: 1909- Archives and manuscripts
Hall, Marshall (1790-1857), English physician and neurophysiologist
Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857Date: 1830 - 1855Reference: MS.8780