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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 / Sam Kean.
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Title:The tale of the dueling neurosurgeons : the history of the human brain as revealed by true stories of trauma, madness, and recovery / Sam Kean.
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Variant Title:Dueling neurosurgeons
History of the human brain as revealed by true stories of trauma, madness, and recovery
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Author/Creator:Kean, Sam, author.
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Published/Created:New York : Back Bay Books, 2015.
©2014
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: WL300 .K24t 2015
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Brain--Popular works.
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Medical Subjects: Brain--physiology.
Neurosciences--history.
Brain Diseases.
Neurologic Manifestations.
Physicians--history.
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Edition:First Back Bay paperback edition.
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Description:xii, 407, 12 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Summary: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. Sam Kean explains the brain's secret passageways and recounts forgotten tales of the ordinary people whose struggles, resilience, and deep humanity made modern neuroscience possible.--From publisher description.
The author of the best-seller The Disappearing Spoon offers fascinating tales of the brain and the history of neuroscience.
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Notes:Includes Reading Group Guide (12 pages).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-395) and index.
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ISBN:9780316182355 (paperback)
0316182354 (paperback)
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Gross Anatomy
Introduction
ch. One Dueling Neurosurgeons
pt. II Cells, Senses, Circuits
ch. Two Assassin's Soup
ch. Three Wiring and Rewiring
ch. Four Facing Brain Damage
pt. III Body and Brain
ch. Five Brain's Motor
ch. Six Laughing Disease
ch. Seven Sex and Punishment
pt. IV Beliefs and Delusions
ch. Eight Sacred Disease
ch. Nine "Sleights of Mind"
pt. V Consciousness
ch. Ten Honest Lying
ch. Eleven Left, Right, and Center
ch. Twelve Man, the Myth, the Legend.