Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I had been in Pittsburgh for seven years, and away from my native country for more than ten. I was doing my internship in psychiatry while continuing research I had begun for my PhD in neuroscience. I had never imagined what this research would reveal: my own disease. #2 I was young and ambitious, and I wanted to live a fast-track life. I didn't want to leave my laboratory and my colleagues. So, I lived alone in my tiny house between a bedroom and a study for a year. #3 I was working on a movie script about my experience with Doctors Without Borders, and I was in love with Anna. But my life took a sudden turn when I was asked to participate in an experiment with student guinea pigs. #4 I was in the scanner when I discovered a tumor in my right prefrontal cortex. I didn't know what to think, so I asked the researchers what they thought it was. They said they weren't sure, but it could be a brain tumor or an abscess

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