Manic Minds : : Mania's Mad History and Its Neuro-Future / / Lisa M. Hermsen.

From its first depictions in ancient medical literature to contemporary depictions in brain imaging, mania has been largely associated with its Greek roots, "to rage." Prior to the nineteenth century, "mania" was used interchangeably with "madness." Although its meaning...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2011]
©2012
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (172 p.) :; 12 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction: Mania's mad history and its Neuro-future
  • Chapter 1 Mania Multiplies with Fury textbook descriptions of the psychopathology
  • Chapter 2 The Maniac and the Iconography of Reform
  • Chapter 3 Midwestern Mania genetics in the heartland
  • Chapter 4 Manic Lives mad memoirs
  • Chapter 5 Neuropsychiatry, Pharmacology, and Imaging the New Mania
  • Epilogue
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR