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C O U R S E
Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life
Peggy Mason, The University of Chicago
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C O U R S E L E C T U R E The Bauby Story Notes taken on May 16, 2014 by Edward Tanguay |
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story: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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the editor of Elle, leading fashion magazine of France
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was driving and had a sudden, massive stroke in his brain stem
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left him paralyzed
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couldn't point
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couldn't swallow
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couldn't talk
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couldn't move
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the way he wrote
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often people with the locked-in syndrome can move an eyelid
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this was the case with Bauby
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an assistant read out the letters of the French alphabet and he blinked when she got to the right letter
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with the one avenue that Bauby had to express himself, he did, and he did so eloquently
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it shows a craving for life and expression
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he died just after the book was published
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the diving bell
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is trapped inside his body as one is trapped inside a diving bell
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has physical abnormalities, feels sensations that are not connected to a body
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the butterfly
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at the same time he can soar with his mind
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he describes scenes in the present tense, it's happening in his brain and that's his reality
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relived memories become his reality
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books:
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life and Death
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Jean-Dominique Bauby
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0375701214
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About French man who has stroke, left him in locked-in syndrome, yet he wrote a 131-page book by blinking his left eye-lid and his partner wrote each word
