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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Early studies of the functions of the human brain used a simple method. Scientists would wait for misfortune to strike, such as strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, lobotomies, or horrendous accidents and see how the victim coped. A few scientists realized that these injuries were an opportunity for studying brain function at its extremes. Sam Kean explains the brain's secret passageways while recounting forgotten stories of common people whose...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A spirited, wry, and utterly original memoir about one woman's struggle to make her way and set up a life after doctors discover a hole the size of a plum in her brain. The summer before she was set to head out-of-state to pursue her MFA, twenty-seven-year-old Cole Cohen submitted herself to a battery of tests. For as long as she could remember, she'd struggled with a series of learning disabilities that made it nearly impossible to judge time and...
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