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Patient H69: The Story of My Second Sight

Autor Vanessa Potter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 sep 2018
Imagine how it would feel to one day wake up and find your vision descending swiftly into darkness.Your fingertips are turning numb, and, as the world closes in around you, you realise there is nothing you can do to stop it. This is what happened to Vanessa Potter. In the space of 72 hours, Vanessa went from juggling a high-flying career as a producer and caring for her two small children to being completely blind, unable to walk, and with her sense of touch completely gone.Over the course of the next six months, Vanessa slowly began to recover. Opening her eyes onto a black-and-white world with mutating shapes and colours that crackled and fizzled, she encountered a visual landscape that was completely unrecognisable. As colour reappeared, Vanessa experienced a range of bizarre phenomena as her confused brain tried to make sense of the world around her, and she found herself touching and talking to inanimate objects in order to stimulate her vision - all part of her brain's mechanism for coping with the trauma of sensory loss. Going blind led Vanessa to turn science sleuth, reinventing herself as Patient H69 to uncover the reality behind her unique condition. With the help of a team of psychologists and neuroscientists, we follow her story as she learns the science of herself, making discoveries that will positively change the course of her life.Vanessa's account is raw and candid, but ultimately upbeat. It shows how this remarkable woman opened doors by transforming her terrifying experience into an inspirational and scientifically fascinating endeavour.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472936127
ISBN-10: 1472936124
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 8-page colour plate section; black and white diagrams
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Sigma
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Supported by a team of neurobiologists, the author investigates the inner working of her own brain to better understand and explain the bizarre visual phenomenon she experiences as her sight is reborn.

Notă biografică

Vanessa Potter spent 16 years as an award-winning broadcast producer in London's advertising industry, before one day fate conspired to turn the lights out on her. Suddenly losing then slowly regaining her sight led Vanessa to change direction, turning the camera upon herself to tell her story via immersive art and storytelling.Vanessa's collaborations have led to some exciting partnerships, and she is currently working on developing an interactive EEG science-art project that allows the public to see and understand the effects of mindfulness on their brains. She is also involved in several other scientific research projects. Her speaking engagements include a June 2016 TEDx talk in Ghent, Belgium.@PatientH69

Cuprins

ForewordIntroduction: The Story of Patient H69Part 1: DIARY OF EVENTSChapter 1: MMXIIChapter 2: Snake BiteChapter 3: The PillowChapter 4: D-DayChapter 5: HomeChapter 6: Mowbray RoadChapter 7: Painting Project 1Part 2: DIARY OF THE SCIENCEChapter 8: The Science of My SightChapter 9: The Art of SeeingChapter 10: SynaesthesiaChapter 11: MemoryChapter 12: Making No SenseChapter 13: Cambridge Science Festival 2015Chapter 14: 20/200Chapter 15: Time TravellerAppendix I: The beach: A visualised sanctuaryAppendix II: Visualisation guideFurther Reading Acknowledgements Index

Recenzii

Patient H69 reads like a thriller ... It is an extraordinary book. What begins as a surreal nightmare of decline becomes a rallying triumph of will and spirit.
For once, the adjectives slathered on a Dramatic First-Person Journey (raw, candid, tragic, inspiring) are warranted.
Follows this indomitable woman's struggles to win back her sight.
This book reminds us to treasure the gift of sight.
Brilliant, insightful, and inspiring. As Potter explores the science behind her condition, she celebrates the remarkable adaptability and flexibility of the human brain and gives us tools to overcome even the deepest traumas.
Part patient diary, part journey into and out of blindness, part popular science book, this is an engaging and at times heart-breakingly sad account of what can happen when we lose our sight. A must read for anyone who does not see the world as others do and who wants to know why.