Understanding Brain Disease
- Publisher
- Bayeux Arts
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2011
- Category
- Neurology
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781897411544
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $1.99
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Description
"Understanding Brain Disease" is as much for the specialist as it is for the lay person interested in finding out where we are today in the scientific attempt to understand and control such conditions as stroke. Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and BSE. A lucid explanation, by the former Dean of te Harvard Medical School, of some of the more common disorders of the brain.
About the author
Joseph Martin, MD, PhD, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University, is the author and co-author of more than three hundred scientific articles and reviews, and is one of the editors of "Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine", a widely-used medical textbbok. He has also served on the editorial boards of the 'New England Journal of Medicine', 'Annals of Neurology', and 'Science'.Dr.Martin is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Association of Physicians and the American Neurological Association, serving the latter as President in 1989. He was awarded the AAMC Abraham Flexner Award in 1999.