The Shattered Mind
Howard Gardner, with the cooperation of the Boston University School of Medicine, where he has worked for three years with brain-damaged patients, discusses the history of the disease and its present state of neuropsychological research, briefly includes diagnostic and clinical techniques and rehabilitative therapies. For the most part his book is a study of the types of disability which go by the names of aphasia, alexia and agraphia, dyslexia, agnosia or Korsakoff's syndrome which is memory loss.