One of the world's leading neurologists reveals the extraordinary stories behind some of the brain disorders that he and his staff at the Harvard Medical School endeavour to treat.
Dr Allan H. Ropper is a Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Raymond D. Adams Master Clinician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He is credited with founding the field of neurological intensive care and counts Michael J. Fox among his patients. Brian David Burrell is the author of Postcards from the Brain Museum. He has appeared on the Today Show, Booknotes, and NPR's Morning Edition. He divides his time between writing and statistical research with neuroscientific applications.
Peppered with insights into the scientific method, emphasizing that
it's not the cold, rational, Sherlock Holmes-like deductive process
it's often portrayed to be. Medical writing at its best.
*V. S. Ramachandran, bestselling author of The Tell-Tale Brain*
Fantastic . . . This peek inside the sick brain, by a foremost
neurologist, helps readers truly appreciate how calamities like
brain tumors, stroke, Parkinson's, seizures and other diseases
affect us. His stories are sometimes painful, sometimes
heartwarming, but invariably tremendously illuminating.
*Elizabeth Loftus, author of The Myth of Repressed Memory*
An in-the-trenches exploration of the challenging world of the
clinical neurologist. From the quotidian to the exotic, from the
heart-breaking to the humorous, the authors present an honest and
compelling look at one of medicine's most fascinating
specialties.
*Dr Michael Collins, author of Hot Lights, Cold Steel*
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