Tuesday, May 10, 2011

All in the Mind - Neuroscientist-turned-novelist Lisa Genova - Narrating disclocated minds

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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.

Show Transcript

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.

Brain Injury Australia

Scholarpedia article on Hemineglect (Left Neglect)
Curated by Prof. Masud Husain, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Institute of Neurology, UK

Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR) Center (USA)

Alzheimer's Association (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's

Dementia and antipsychotics: medication or management?
Broadcast on All in the Mind, 2008

Working 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, 2006

Dementia and the creative mind
Broadcast on All in the Mind, 2005

Dementia (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, 2009

Title: Left Neglected
Author: Lisa Genova
Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2011

Presenter

Natasha Mitchell

Producer

Natasha Mitchell/Corinne Podger


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