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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
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories...
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Start date
July 1, 2016
Finish date
July 31, 2016
Why we're reading this
July marks the one year anniversary of a good friend of mine undergoing brain surgery - so it seems only …more

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Annie
May 29, 2014 rated it it was amazing
At times funny and others highly disturbing. It was scary to discover how much control our brains really have. An injury in just the right spot has the potential to change who we believe ourselves to be. There is no self and no free will, there is only a very sophisticated communication of neurons. Several prominent doctors were mentioned and I found myself wanting to know more about them, and then their dark sides emerged. Sam Kean stood on the shoulders of giants to write this book and in the ...more
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