Mason, Michael Paul,  1971- <br/><br/>
Head cases :  stories of brain injury and its aftermath / 
Michael Paul Mason. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Farrar, Straus and Giroux,  2008. 
 - 310 pages ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>The hermit of Hollywood Boulevard -- A prisoner of the present -- An insult to the brain -- Rob Rabe cannot cry -- Portrait of an injury -- The only thing that works -- The resurrection of Doug Bearden -- Ultraviolent Bryan -- Fugue of the pony soldier -- In all earnestness -- The hospital in the desert -- Wood of the suicides. 
<br/><br/> Mason gives a series of vivid glimpses into brain science, the last frontier of medicine, and explores fragility of the brain and the sense of self, life, and order that resides there. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780374134525 0374134529 9780374531959 0374531951 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007032335 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA847725  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Brain--Wounds and injuries--United States--Case studies.<br/>Brain--Wounds and injuries--Patients--Rehabilitation--United States--Case studies.<br/>Brain damage--Patients--Rehabilitation--United States--Case studies.<br/>Brain damage--United States--Case studies.<br/>Brain damage--Patients--Rehabilitation.<br/>Brain damage.<br/>Brain--Wounds and injuries.<br/>Brain--Wounds and injuries--Patients--Rehabilitation.<br/>Brain Injuries.<br/>Health Services Accessibility.<br/>Long-Term Care.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States.<br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Autobiographies.<br/>Case studies.<br/>Nonfiction.<br/>Case studies.<br/>Autobiographies.<br/>Personal Narrative.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC387.5  / .M377 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>617.4/810443 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>2008 L-330 WL 354  / M398h 2008