e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Booklist Review
Choice Review
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
Peskin, Sara Manning.
Subjects
Nervous system -- Diseases -- Patients -- Anecdotes.
Neurosciences.
Brain -- Research.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Peskin, Sara Manning.
by title:
A molecule away from...
by call number:
616.8 P474m
Search the Web
Peskin, Sara Manning.
Nervous system -- Diseases -- Patients -- Anecdotes.
Neurosciences.
Brain -- Research.
MARC Display
A
molecule
away
from
madness
:
tales
of the
hijacked
brain
/ Sara Manning Peskin.
by
Peskin, Sara Manning.
W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.
Call #:
616.8 P474m
Subjects
Nervous system -- Diseases -- Patients -- Anecdotes.
Neurosciences.
Brain
-- Research.
ISBN:
9781324002376 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Tales
of the
hijacked
brain
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
viii, 214 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-206) and index.
Summary:
"Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here are gripping accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their wake. A college student cannot remember if she has eaten breakfast. By dinner, she is strapped to a hospital bed, convinced she is battling zombies. A man planning to propose marriage instead becomes violently enraged, gripped by body spasms so severe that he nearly bites off his own tongue. One after another, poor farmers in South Carolina drop dead from a mysterious epidemic of dementia. With an intoxicating blend of history and intrigue, Sara Manning Peskin invites readers to play medical detective, tracing each diagnosis from the patient to an ailing nervous system. Along the way, Peskin entertains with
tales
of the sometimes outlandish, often criticized, and forever devoted scientists who discovered it all. Peskin never loses sight of the human impact of these conditions. Alzheimer’s Disease is more than the gradual loss of a loved one; it can be a family’s multigenerational curse. The proteins that abound in every cell of our bodies are not simply strings of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon; they are the building blocks of our personalities and relationships. A
Molecule
Away
from
Madness
is an unputdownable journey into the deepest mysteries of our brains."--From publisher.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Due Date
Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
616.8 P474m
Adult books
Checked out
Jul 06, 2024
Add Copy to MyList
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
616.8 P474m
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.