Stolen Mind: The Slow Disappearance of Ray Doernberg
Myrna Doernberg. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, $8.95 (223pp) ISBN 978-0-945575-11-5
``The widow of a 48-year-old victim of Binswanger's Disease, a rare, hard-to-diagnose brain disorder with Alzheimer's-like dementia symptoms, recounts her husband's two-year ordeal, from the first signs of memory loss through a series of small strokes and epileptic seizures, which led to his death in 1984,'' reported PW. Her journal is an affecting record that provides objective details. Illustrated. (May)
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Reviewed on: 04/30/1989
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 223 pages - 978-0-912697-32-1