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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

✍ Scribed by Kean, Sam

Book ID: 107898658
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Weight: 5 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780316242257

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**The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories.**Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike — strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents — and see how victims coped. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. Observers were amazed by the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed, altering victims' personalities. Parents suddenly couldn't recognize their own children. Pillars of the community became pathological liars. Some people couldn't speak but could still sing.
In The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, Sam Kean travels through time with stories of neurological curiosities: phantom limbs, Siamese twin brains, viruses that eat patients' memories, blind people who see through their tongues. He weaves these narratives together with...

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