Phantoms in the Brain
Dramatic stories of patients and their doctors, exploring the nature of physical and mental health.
Every day, in every hospital, people are being admitted with neurological symptoms like seizures, paralysis, inability to speak or walk. Other patients suffer from psychiatric symptoms such as bizarre delusions or life-shattering hallucinations. Yet not all is as it first seems. Some of those with physical problems will not have identifiable physical causes, and some with apparent psychiatric disorders will have a specific and potentially treatable physical cause.
Through the dramatic stories of patients and their doctors, in this 4-part series, neurologist, Professor Guy Leschziner, presenter of "Mysteries of Sleep" and "The Senses", explores the nature of the complex interactions between physical and mental health; and how modern medicine is revolutionising our understanding of brain and mind. We discover how novel insights are rapidly breaking down the division between psychiatry and neurology.
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