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Memories of a Brain Doctor: Parkinson's, Paralysis, Psychosis. Muhammad Ali, Franklin Roosevelt, and Adolf Hitler. A neurologist's perspective into the minds of famous and infamous persons.
Memories of a Brain Doctor Parkinson's, Paralysis, Psychosis. Muhammad Ali, Franklin Roosevelt, and Adolf Hitler. A neurologist's perspective into the minds of notorious leaders.
The book is an insight into people Dr. Lieberman cared for including Leona Helmsley, the “Queen of Mean,” Joseph E Levine the Hollywood impresario, Jack Dempsey and Muhammad Ali, or studied including President Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler.
The book recounts Dr. Lieberman’s and President Roosevelt’s struggle with paralysis, from poliomyelitis, and their refusal to accept the limitations of their paralysis. When America was paralyzed by the Great Depression, Roosevelt rallied the nation saying , “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes us”
The book recounts how Muhammad Ali the greatest athlete of the 20th Century and Dr. Lieberman’s patient for 30 years confronted his Parkinson disease. He did not succumb to his disability but surmounted it and helped others deal with theirs. The book describes Adolf Hitler’s Parkinson disease, on which Dr. Lieberman is an authority, including Hitler’s paranoia and psychoses. As a student of mass murderers and serial killers Dr. Lieberman writes about President Kennedy assassination and speculates about a coup.
The book recounts Dr. Lieberman’s father’s experience in Czarist Russia during World War I, his mother’s experience as a field nurse in the German Army during World War I, her cousin, Dudya’s part in the Russian Revolution and his meeting with Lenin and Stalin. The book describes growing up in Brownsville, the home of Murder Inc. The book recounts Dr. Lieberman’s years at Cornell where a professor of medieval history introduced him to Germany and describes how Hitler fooled the German people and led them to war.
The book describes Dr. Lieberman’s years at the NYU- Bellevue Hospital Medical School, describes unusual patients and diseases that shaped his thinking and taught him about the brain. It is here he became interested in Parkinson disease and the revolutionary new drug, levodopa and worked with Professor Menek Goldstein a holocaust survivor who introduced him to the Nobel Laureates who created the field of biogenic amines. The book covers how Dr. Lieberman became an expert on Hitler’s Parkinson disease.
The book describes how Dr. Lieberman met Jack Dempsey, next to Muhammad Ali the greatest boxer of the 20th Century, how Muhammad became his patient, and what a fight between Jack and Muhammad would be like. The book recounts why Dr. Lieberman left New York and went to the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix where he helped start the world renowned Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center.
Doctor Lieberman is a neurologist born in Brooklyn, in 1938. He graduated from Cornell University in 1959, New York University-Bellevue Hospital Medical School in 1963, completed a neurology residency at New York University-Bellevue Hospital 1964 - 1967, served as a Captain at the United States Air Force Hospital, Tachikawa, Japan 1967 to 1969 and did a fellowship in biogenic amines at New York University 1969-1970.
The book is an insight into people Dr. Lieberman cared for including Leona Helmsley, the “Queen of Mean,” Joseph E Levine the Hollywood impresario, Jack Dempsey and Muhammad Ali, or studied including President Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler.
The book recounts Dr. Lieberman’s and President Roosevelt’s struggle with paralysis, from poliomyelitis, and their refusal to accept the limitations of their paralysis. When America was paralyzed by the Great Depression, Roosevelt rallied the nation saying , “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes us”
The book recounts how Muhammad Ali the greatest athlete of the 20th Century and Dr. Lieberman’s patient for 30 years confronted his Parkinson disease. He did not succumb to his disability but surmounted it and helped others deal with theirs. The book describes Adolf Hitler’s Parkinson disease, on which Dr. Lieberman is an authority, including Hitler’s paranoia and psychoses. As a student of mass murderers and serial killers Dr. Lieberman writes about President Kennedy assassination and speculates about a coup.
The book recounts Dr. Lieberman’s father’s experience in Czarist Russia during World War I, his mother’s experience as a field nurse in the German Army during World War I, her cousin, Dudya’s part in the Russian Revolution and his meeting with Lenin and Stalin. The book describes growing up in Brownsville, the home of Murder Inc. The book recounts Dr. Lieberman’s years at Cornell where a professor of medieval history introduced him to Germany and describes how Hitler fooled the German people and led them to war.
The book describes Dr. Lieberman’s years at the NYU- Bellevue Hospital Medical School, describes unusual patients and diseases that shaped his thinking and taught him about the brain. It is here he became interested in Parkinson disease and the revolutionary new drug, levodopa and worked with Professor Menek Goldstein a holocaust survivor who introduced him to the Nobel Laureates who created the field of biogenic amines. The book covers how Dr. Lieberman became an expert on Hitler’s Parkinson disease.
The book describes how Dr. Lieberman met Jack Dempsey, next to Muhammad Ali the greatest boxer of the 20th Century, how Muhammad became his patient, and what a fight between Jack and Muhammad would be like. The book recounts why Dr. Lieberman left New York and went to the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix where he helped start the world renowned Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center.
Doctor Lieberman is a neurologist born in Brooklyn, in 1938. He graduated from Cornell University in 1959, New York University-Bellevue Hospital Medical School in 1963, completed a neurology residency at New York University-Bellevue Hospital 1964 - 1967, served as a Captain at the United States Air Force Hospital, Tachikawa, Japan 1967 to 1969 and did a fellowship in biogenic amines at New York University 1969-1970.
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Published January 16, 2020
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February 20, 2021
Will Work for Anyone!!
Great book great advice and easy to follow with no timeline! Work at you own pace! Well written and fun informative read!!
Great book great advice and easy to follow with no timeline! Work at you own pace! Well written and fun informative read!!
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