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Psychology - brain damage case studies

Okay, for part of my AQA A A2 psychology we're doing the brain and behaviour and we've been looking at techniques (non-invasive and invasive). Anyway, we're onto brain damage and my teacher's asked us to list case studies of people who've suffered brain damage and the effects and so on.

BUT so far I've only got Phineas Gage...I've tried looking on t'internet but no such luck. If anyone could help I'd be really grateful.
Raine, Buchsbaum and LaCasse 1997

Looked at whether violent offenders have brain dysfunction localised to specific brain areas.





thats all i know related to brain damage, so sorry if it's not that helpful :frown:
Reply 2
Try Oliver Sacks patients?
There's also a lot of case studies on brain damage done by people looking at memory structure- maybe look in your textbook there. Also try looking at neuroscience- alot of the discoveries were made (what part does what, etc.) based on brain damaged patients.
Good Luck!
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Thanks guys! I'd rep you but my powers are weak :smile:
Reply 4
supercat
Okay, for part of my AQA A A2 psychology we're doing the brain and behaviour and we've been looking at techniques (non-invasive and invasive). Anyway, we're onto brain damage and my teacher's asked us to list case studies of people who've suffered brain damage and the effects and so on.

BUT so far I've only got Phineas Gage...I've tried looking on t'internet but no such luck. If anyone could help I'd be really grateful.


Clive Wearing: a musician who developed a viral infection who was unable to store new memories, e.g. not remembering what the time was 5 seconds after he looked at his watch, forgetting what he had just read in the newspaper and so on.

And I know that there are some others that I have done, so as soon as I find out the case study, I'll give you his name.
Reply 5
hey dude - i know this is unrelated but get todays daily mail. theres a big article about a woman who has some form of amnesia.. thought its sort of related to the brain and you might want to read it out of interest xx