cover image Stolen Mind: The Slow Disappearance of Ray Doernberg

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)