Encephalitis Lethargica The Mind and Brain Virus /

• Main Author: Foley, Paul Bernard (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Virology.; Medicine.; Human physiology.; Biomedicine, general.; Human Physiology.

Encephalitis lethargica ('sleeping sickness') was a mysterious disorder that swept the world in the decade following the First World War, before disappearing without its cause having been identified. Around 85% of its victims, predominantly children, adolescents and younger adults, survive...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1915-1918: The Origins Of Encephalitis Lethargica
• 1919‐1924: The International Epidemic
• The Nature Of Acute Encephalitis Lethargica
• When Night Comes Falling: Chronic Encephalitis Lethargica
• The Psychiatry Of Encephalitis Lethargica
• The Neuropathology Of Encephalitis Lethargica
• What Caused Encephalitis Lethargica?
• After The Flood
• The Fading Trail Of The Sleepy Wraith
• Index.