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Topic: Awakenings


In the News (Sat 11 Oct 08)

  
  Natural Awakenings - Melbourne/Vero Edition
Natural Awakenings is a family of locally owned magazines reaching over 1 million readers each month in 40 communities.
Natural Awakenings is bringing you just that for Brevard and Indian River counties.
Awaken the hidden power within you in as little as 5 minutes a week.
www.namelbourne.com   (227 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Sacks, Oliver Wolf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A creative medical thinker, Sacks is known for an approach to medicine that humanizes the patient and is concerned with the psychological, moral, and spiritual elements of illness and treatment.
His books, which include Awakenings (1973), The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985), An Anthropologist on Mars (1995), and The Island of the Colorblind (1997), describe case histories of people with neurological and perceptual disorders, and exhibit a fascination with the creativity of the human mind as it copes with such disabilities.
Bibliography: See his memoir of his boyhood, Uncle Tungsten (2001).
www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Sacks.asp   (224 words)

  
 Memory Problems - More Than Ordinary Forgetfulness - Introduction to Symptoms
If you lose the thread of personal memories, then you are gone.
Oliver Sacks, the neurologist who wrote Awakenings, describes a sad case of memory impairment in his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
A particular patient received a severe head injury in World War II.
www.thehealthcenter.info /emotions/memory   (1266 words)

  
 NMHA Jumplist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library U.S. Code Houses a searchable online database of the United States Code.
Awakenings Project assists persons with mental illness in developing and enhancing their creative abilities through art in all its forms, and to raise public awareness of the creative talents and contributions of people living with mental illness.
The Bright Side is a new volunteer based non-profit organization that aims to provide an online community where people feeling overwhelmed with life can find immediate solace, support and resources for self help.
www.nmha.org /jumplist/index.cfm   (2663 words)

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