Encephalitis lethargica

The film, Awakenings, is based on a true story from the book of neurologist Oliver Sacks’. In this film, Robert de Niro plays as Leonord Lowe, who is affected by sleepy sickness as a young man. He was unable to move or speak. He was visited by her mother every day to look after him as she has for many years. Robin Williams plays as Dr. Malcolm Sayer, which is the neurologist in the film, like Dr. Sacks who discovered the forgotten survivors of the sleepy sickness epidemic. He finds himself drawn…

Throughout history there are few events that have brought as much debate, controversy, and overall curiosity as the Salem Witch Trials did. Although only nine months took place between the first witch accusations and the last, the period of the Salem Witch Trials had a lasting impression on American minds. Three hundred years later and there is still a specific aspect of literature looking to fix blame for the ordeal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony witchcraft trials. In some ways, the very fact…

ABANGAN, KENDRA MARIE L. OT 1-1 MA’AM PEGGY ANNE OBRE “Awakenings” By: Oliver Sacks The awakening is based on a true story. A movie nominated 3 academy awards and considered as a box office movie that had reached approximately $52 million in their earnings. It is full of drama that can touch the heart of every person that will watch this kind of story, a story that is filled with hopes, joy,…

Tregold, a British physician, writer, and expert on mental disorders, studied the results of the 1918 influenza epidemic. There he found that many who had recovered from encephalitis lethargica, a virus now thought to be associated with the flu virus but a separate virus altogether, suffered brain damage. Those survivors presented ADHD-like symptoms. Children often became “hyperactive, distractible, irritable, antisocial, destructive…