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Thomson, Helen.
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Brain.
Neurosciences.
Diseases.
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Thomson, Helen.
Brain.
Neurosciences.
Diseases.
Brain -- Diseases
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Unthinkable : an extraordinary journey through the world's strangest brains /
Helen
Thomson
.
by
Thomson
,
Helen
.
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018.
Call #:
612.82 T483u
Subjects
Brain.
Neurosciences.
Diseases.
Brain -- Diseases
ISBN:
9780062391162 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Extraordinary journey through the world's strangest brains
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
275 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-263) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: The strange life of the brain -- Bob: never forgetting a moment -- Sharon: Being permanently lost -- Rubén: seeing auras -- Tommy: switching personalities -- Sylvia: an endless hallucination -- Matar: turning into a tiger -- Louise: becoming unreal -- Graham: waking up dead -- Joel: feeling other people's pain -- Conclusion: Nothing is unthinkable.
Summary:
"
Thomson
spent two years interviewing people with unusual neurological disorders, and shares nine of these fascinating stories. They include a woman from Denver who gets lost in her own house; a man from Bilbao, Spain, whose synesthesia gives him the impression of seeing other people?s ?auras?; and a London math teacher prone to musical hallucinations.
Thomson
places the people at the forefront, exploring their varying responses to their conditions and intense struggles to live ?normal? lives. Lay readers will value her ability to render scientific terms and theories accessible, and her corresponding skill as a storyteller. In one particularly memorable episode, the author travels to the United Arab Emirates to meet with a 40-year-old man suffering from lycanthropy, a rare syndrome involving delusions of transformation?in this case, into a tiger. She also visits a British woman who suffers from depersonalization?the feeling of becoming detached from oneself?and chats with a man who once believed himself to be dead."--From publisher.
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