It affected all aspects of behaviour and trapped patients within themselves, often for decades. Oliver Sacks worked at Mount Carmel, an institution outside New York, which had 80 patients with intractable, post-encephalitic parkinsonian syndrome. Many of those who survived developed a range of postencephalitic syndromes. Sacks's book Awakenings is a series of extraordinary case reports describing how patients trapped by parkinsonism were re-awakened by levodopa after decades of stupor and inertia.Īfter the first world war, an epidemic of encephalitis lethargica started in Vienna and spread across the world. 35.In 1969 levodopa (L-dopa) was hailed as a miracle drug that would cure parkinsonism.
Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after the First World War, all twenty had spent forty years in hospital: motionless and speechless aware of the world around them, but exhibiting no interest in it - until Dr Sacks administered the then-new drug, L-DOPA, which caused them, temporarily, to awake from their decades-long slumber.
9780330523677 Awakenings 35.2000 NZD InStock /shop/books/non-fiction /shop/books /shop/books/non-fiction/history/true-crime /shop/books/non-fiction/history Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays, and various TV documentaries, Awakenings is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients. Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays, and various TV documentaries, Awakenings is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients.
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