Unthinkable : an extraordinary journey through the world's strangest brains
(2018)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
612.82/THOMSON,H
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
©2018
©2018
EDITION
First U.S. edition
DESCRIPTION
275 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780062391162, 006239116X
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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
"Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson unlocks the biggest mysteries of the human brain by examining nine extraordinary cases." -- Book jacket