Head Case : My Brain and Other Wonders

from tjsjohanna

Ms. Cohen explores her changing feelings after she discovers that her ongoing struggles are not due to ADHD or some other ailment, but rather because there is a "hole" in her brain that has interfered with her brain's functioning. This isn't a memoir of how the author fixes her problems, but rath...

from tara35

I love memoirs and working in health care, I am always interested in medical stories so this was a good read for me. The author was diagnosed as an adult as having a lemon sized hole in her brain. After a lifetime of what were perceived as learning disabilities and various other odd symptoms this...

from mckait

Head Case: My Brain and Other Wonders by Cole Cohen reads like a a conversation. It is Cole telling her reader how it feels to be Cole. She is brutally honest, and sometimes sounds confused. This seems absolutely perfect to me, because who among us can describe themselves comepletely and without ...

from whitreidtan

We all have things we do well and things we don't do as well. I am an English and Humanities girl while my sister is a Math and Science girl. This is just the way we are, the way our brains work. When I read about Cole Cohen's inability to tell her right from her left, the way she's spent her who...

from jeanie1

Good read. It is amazing how one copes with the inability to do things that most people take for granted - like crossing a street. Too bad that the author was not correctly diagnosed until she was an adult, especially since her parents took her to a number of physicians. The moral of the story is...