In Sweden, refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In upstate New York, high school students develop contagious seizures. In the US Embassy in Cuba, employees complain of headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises in the night.
These disparate cases are some of the most remarkable diagnostic mysteries of the twenty-first century, as both doctors and scientists have struggled to explain them within the boundaries of medical science and - more crucially - to treat them. What unites them is that they are all examples of a particular type of psychosomatic illness: medical disorders that are influenced as much by the idiosyncratic aspects of individual cultures as they are by human biology.
作者简介
苏珊娜-奥沙利文博士自2004年以来一直是神经病学顾问,在伦敦皇家医院工作,现在是国家神经病学和神经外科医院的临床神经生理学和神经学顾问。她擅长调查复杂的癫痫病,同时对精神性疾病也有积极的兴趣。苏珊娜的书《都在你的脑子里》(It's All in Your Head)赢得了惠康图书奖和皇家生物学会图书奖,她备受好评的《头脑风暴》于2018年出版。
Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan has been a consultant in neurology since 2004, first working at the Royal London Hospital and now as a consultant in clinical neurophysiology and neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. She specializes in the investigation of complex epilepsy and also has an active interest in psychogenic disorders. Suzanne's first book, It's All in Your Head, won both the Wellcome Book Prize and the Royal Society of Biology Book Prize and her critically acclaimed Brainstorm was published in 2018.
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