Marcus Byruck's New Book "Mind, Mood, and Memory: A Memoir of Maladies" is the Chronicle of a Postwar Immigrant Success Story Marred by Debilitating Medical Conditions
Recent release "Mind, Mood, and Memory: A Memoir of Maladies" from Page Publishing author Marcus Byruck is a candid autobiographical reflection on an interesting and varied existence. The last four decades of this talented American immigrants' life have been afflicted with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, mood disorder, and memory loss.
MILL VALLEY, Calif., Feb. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Marcus Byruck, an author living with his wife in Marin County, California, has completed his book "Mind, Mood, and Memory: A Memoir of Maladies": a poignant journal of an eventful and well-lived life at times heartbreakingly derailed by a triad of intractable medical conditions.
Marcus Byruck grew up in a small flat in the Jewish ghetto of London's East End. His father sold rags from a cart and his mother died in an asylum. Bright and ambitious, he escaped poverty to work his way to Oxford University and on to a career in the burgeoning computer industry of 1960's Silicon Valley. Then he experienced his first grand-mal seizure, breaking his back and launching a decades-long battle with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.
In this memoir, Marcus Byruck recounts the discovery of the rare form of amnesia associated with his epilepsy, which deletes memories of specific experiences, while leaving intact his ability to recall other forms of information. Since his condition ironically renders him unable to remember much of his life, he draws on the recollections of his wife and son, on the journals and records he meticulously maintained throughout his life, and on his ongoing relationships with the neuroscientists who have studied him.
At each stage of his journey, he candidly describes his own psychological conditions, his struggles with debilitating depression and anxiety, and in the process offers an indictment of mainstream psychiatry's overreliance on the drugs that nearly killed him.
The result is an intimate and ultimately uplifting portrait of a deeply gifted American immigrant, plagued by a disease that erases his reality with each new day.
Published by New York City-based Page Publishing, Byruck's book is a deeply personal true story of a gifted American immigrant afflicted in later life with a severe memory disorder.
Readers who wish to experience this enthralling work can purchase "Mind, Mood, and Memory: A Memoir of Maladies" at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes store, Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.
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