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A series of case studies of some of the people who developed a sleeping-sickness after World War I and remained in a sleep state until given the drug L-Dopa. Also describes their lives, the transformation after awakening, and then describes parts of the film made from these case…
"Awakenings"--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until…
Describes the author's work with institutionalized patients at Mount Carmel Hospital and the dramatic effects of the drug L-DOPA on twenty patients suffering from encephalitic Parkinsonism. A series of case studies of some of the people who developed a sleeping-sickness after W…
A series of case studies of some of the people who developed a sleeping-sickness after World War I and remained in a sleep state until given the drug L-Dopa. Also describes their lives, the transformation after awakening, and then describes parts of the film made from these case…
Now hailed as a medical classic this extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920's, and the astonishing explosive "awakening" effect they experienced 40 years later through new drug L-DOPA a…
Now hailed as a medical classic this extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920's, and the astonishing explosive "awakening" effect they experienced 40 years later through new drug L-DOPA a…