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# The Ghost in My Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get It Back Paperback – May 31, 2016

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A must for those dealing with concussion
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 6, 2023*

This is a must to read to everybody dealing with concussion and to their families.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An Inspiring Story of Concussion Recovery by "Hacking" the Brain With Visual Puzzles and Therapeutic Eye Glasses
  

*by B***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 29, 2015*

Synopsis of the Book:The “Ghost in My Brain” is a fascinating and passionate book about how a concussion can wreck a life – and how avant-garde treatments like visual puzzles and special eyeglasses can quickly rewire the brain into recovery.Author Clark Elliott is a computer science professor at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois.  The book documents eight years of his life, and describes:• The automobile accident that gave him a concussion• The eight years of hell he endured as he struggled to raise a family and keep his university position in spite of concussion-impaired abilities• His rapid recovery (within one year!) after a combined treatment of context-free puzzles developed by psychologist Dr. Donalee Markus, and special therapeutic glasses designed by neuro-optometrist Dr. Deborah ZelinskyThroughout all this, Clark kept a detailed diary of his inner thoughts and personal experiences, and he used this 1200 page record to write the book.One of the book’s key narrative strengths is that he thoroughly describes the tragic ways the concussion sapped his energy and altered his normal brain function, and the ingenious coping strategies he used to appear “normal” to colleagues, friends, and family.Examples of his concussion-induced impairments include:•  Taking minutes to recall important information – like the names of his children.•  Getting “lost” in parking lots and streets he used every day.•  Developing physical pain, nausea, loss of balance, and even seizures when he encountered certain sounds or visual patterns.•  When listening to academic lectures, he only had 25 minutes of critical thinking time before he became mentally and physically non-functional.While enduring this for eight years, Clark consulted with the best traditional doctors in the field of brain injury and recovery – who said that he would never get any better, and that he should just learn to live with his symptoms.However, through a chance encounter he was introduced to Dr. Donalee Markus, and through her to neuro-optometrist Dr. Deborah Zelinsky.  Working together – Dr. Markus with context free visual puzzles tuned to Clark’s concussion symptoms, and Dr. Zelinsky with glasses that altered the direction and frequency of light hitting his retina – Clark made rapid progress.Within two weeks “the fog lifted”, and he regained a significant portion of his cognitive abilities, and after six months he was largely recovered.What I liked:For me, the most emotionally affecting part of this book was Clark’s description of his “inner world” as a concussion patient, and the many overt and subtle ways that brain damage can impair one’s ability to think clearly and effectively, and to correctly process the “outside” world.  Clark describes it as becoming an alien being that walks and talks and acts though he was part of the human race, but that it doesn’t feel that way inside.In addition, I was touched by Clark’s descriptions of how his concussion impaired personal talents that he loved and cherished – such as spatial visualization and reasoning.  Having the concussion take away energy is bad enough – but losing the abilities that give one’s life meaning is even more tragic.  We have all heard about football players who had to retire due to severe concussions – but how often do we hear about painters abandoning their art because a concussion destroyed their ability to see the world through an artist’s eye?While the book was emotionally inspiring, as a technologist I was also fascinated by the idea that one can “hack” the brain – change its function - through visual stimuli (puzzles) and special eyeglasses.  Drs. Markus and Zelinsky altered Clark’s brain function to alleviate his concussion symptoms, but I wonder whether these same techniques can be used to treat other conditions – or to enhance already-existing abilities and talents.For example, Clark is a trained musician and vinyl-listening audiophile, and in the book describes how his therapeutic glasses had the unintended side effect of greatly improving his ability to perceive and visualize classical music.Conclusions:If you have a loved one who has suffered a concussion, I urge you to read this book.  It will help you understand and appreciate the challenges they face both externally and internally, and it will also introduce you to new treatments that can be far more effective than traditional "wait and rest" protocols.In addition, technologists and those interested in neural science and brain plasticity should read this book.  Clark’s detailed descriptions of his internal processing challenges illustrate the complexity of perception, and the idea of “hacking” (re-wiring) the brain via puzzles and special eyeglasses is a revolutionary idea.  The author devotes a detailed chapter to each of these therapies and how they were applied to his condition, and these sections provide a very readable overview of each method’s theory and practice.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Clark's report
  

*by B***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 2, 2023*

I am glad Clark found help, but I feel like I paid for an ad for the clinic he used.

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