Very cool discussion - All in the Mind's Natasha Mitchell speaks with Lisa Genova about her new novel and about translating neuroscience to fiction, among other topics.
Neuroscientist-turned-novelist Lisa Genova - Narrating disclocated minds
Alice is just 50 and at the peak of her Harvard career when Alzheimer's arrives. High flyer mother Sarah is driving to work when an accident & brain damage erases the left side of her world. Bestselling neuroscientist-turned-novelist Lisa Genova has a knack of getting inside her character's dislocated minds & lives.
Guests
Dr Lisa Genova
Neuroscientist and novelist
http://lisagenova.com/Further Information
Alzheimer's Australia
The 2011 National Alzheimer's national conference will be held 17-20 May in Brisbane.Scholarpedia article on Hemineglect (Left Neglect)
Curated by Prof. Masud Husain, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Institute of Neurology, UKAlzheimer's Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR) Center (USA)
Early Onset Alzheimer's information from Alzheimer's Australia
Sir Terry Pratchett - Hallucinating Gently for a Living
The first of these two shows linking novelists, minds and Alzheimer'sDementia and antipsychotics: medication or management?
Broadcast on All in the Mind, 2008Working with the mind in dementia, not against it (Part 2 of 2)
Broadcast on All in the Mind, 2008.Mind your mind
Broadcast on All in the Mind, 2006Dementia and the creative mind
Broadcast on All in the Mind, 2005Dementia (Part 2) - Cell Therapies on the Cutting Edge
Broadcast on All in the Mind, 2005.Dementia (Part 1) - Dancing With Dementia: Christine Bryden's Story
Broadcast on All in the Mind, 2005.Alzheimer's disease - ABC Health and Wellbeing fact sheet
Publications
Title: Still Alice
Author: Lisa Genova
Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2009Title: Left Neglected
Author: Lisa Genova
Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2011Presenter
Natasha Mitchell
Producer
Natasha Mitchell/Corinne Podger
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