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Author
Publisher
Arcopress
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Este libro está dirigido tanto a pacientes como a familiares, psicólogos, personal sanitario y todos aquellos interesados en conocer la realidad de esta enfermedad. Proporciona información centrada en aspectos clínicos así como en sus tratamientos, al tiempo que desmonta todo tipo de supercherías: la epilepsia no convierte al paciente en un enfermo mental, no es transmisible ni hereditaria y, a pesar de que las crisis más conocidas son las...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1953, a renowned Yale neurosurgeon named William Beecher Scoville performed a novel operation on a 27-year-old epileptic patient named Henry Molaison, drilling two silver-dollar sized holes in his forehead and suctioning out a few teaspoons of tissue from a mysterious region deep inside his brain. The operation helped control Molaison's intractable seizures, but it also did something else: It left Molaison amnesic for the rest of...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This book is the most comprehensive and authoritative work on the topic of seizures in children. This new fourth edition reflects significant changes in the field, and each chapter has been revised to reflect current practice"--
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Permanent Present Tense tells the incredible story of Henry Gustave Molaison, known only as H.M. until his death in 2008. In 1953, at the age of twenty-seven, Molaison underwent a dangerous "psychosurgical" procedure intended to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. The surgery went horribly wrong, and when Molaison awoke he was unable to store new experiences. For the rest of his life, he would be trapped in the moment. But Molaison's tragedy would...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Josie is timid at school, comfortable at home, and confident when she and her dog Clementine are volunteering at the pediatric ward of the local hospital; Oscar is acting out and in trouble at school, miserable at home, and forced to volunteer as a punishment; Gabby is popular at school, but her perfect life is threatened because she is hiding a dangerous medical condition -- but at the hospital the three children are brought together by Clementine...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A study in the collision between Western medicine and the beliefs of a traditional culture focuses on a hospitalized child of Laotian immigrants whose belief that illness is a spiritual matter comes into conflict with doctors' methods.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Eleanor and Edward have wealth, status, and a happy marriage. But the 1929 financial crash is looming, and they're harboring a terrible, shameful secret. How far are they willing to go to protect their charmed life-even if it means abandoning their child to a horrific fate?"--
10) Mis(h)adra
Author
Publisher
Gallery 13, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Isaac wants nothing more than to be a functional college student but managing his epilepsy is an exhausting battle to survive. He attempts to maintain a balancing act between his seizure triggers and his day-to-day schedule, but he finds that nothing not even his medication seems to work. The doctors won t listen, the schoolwork keeps piling up, his family is in denial about his condition, and his social life falls apart as he feels more and more...
11) The arsonist
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Molly Mavity and Pepper Yusef are dealing with their own personal tragedies when they are tasked by an anonymous person with solving the decades-old murder of Ava Dryman, an East German teenager whose diary was published after her death.
12) Stella
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As a puppy, Stella was trained to use her powerful beagle nose to sniff out dangerous chemicals and help her handler keep people safe. During a routine security inspection, Stella misses the scent of an explosive. The sound of the blast is loud and scary. Unable to go back to work because of her anxiety, Stella is retired as a working dog. A young girl named Cloe wants to adopt Stella, the beagle smells a strange chemical inside Cloe's body, a scent...
13) The lost prince
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Videl
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Language
English
Description
Miranda Richardson and Tom Hollander star as Queen Mary and King George V. After discovering that their son Prince John (Daniel Williams and Matthew Thomas) suffers from epilepsy and learning disabilities, the royals have the boy sent off to be raised in a rural farmhouse, lest he tarnish the family's image of superiority. Removed from the public eye and the attention of his parents, Prince John forms a loving bond with his nurse, Lalla (Gina McKee)....
14) Halsey's pride
Author
Publisher
Scriber
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old March, an epileptic, comes to live with her dog breeder father and through her growing attachment to her father's prize dog, Pride, learns a great deal about love, truth, courage and how to cope with adverse fate.
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