How the Brain Lost Its Mind
Book description
'Hugely entertaining' Guardian
'Fascinating' Mail on Sunday
In 1882, Jean-Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established a neurology clinic at the infamous Salpetriere Hospital, a place that was called a 'grand asylum of human misery'. Assessing the dismal conditions, he quickly upgraded the facilities, and in…
Why read it?
1 author picked How the Brain Lost Its Mind as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book offers a captivating tale of how the increasing knowledge of one disease, syphilis, created the foundations to understanding that the brain and mind are one and the same. The authors narrate the stories of patients whose “hysteria” (today referred to as functional neurological disorder) were traced to degenerative brain lesions that only belatedly were understood to be complications caused by remote infections with the bacterium Treponema pallidum. Several chapters follow the story of the important characters depicted by André Brouillet in the Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière (A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière), one of the most…
From Alberto's list on rethinking brain aging and neurodegeneration.
If you love How the Brain Lost Its Mind...
From One Cell
Everybody knows that all animals—bats, bears, sharks, ponies, and people—start out as a single cell: the fertilized egg. But how does something no bigger than the period at the end of this sentence give rise to the remarkable complexity of each of these creatures?
FROM ONE CELL is a dive…
Want books like How the Brain Lost Its Mind?
Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like How the Brain Lost Its Mind.
Share your top 3 reads of 2024!
And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.
1,593
readers submitted
so far, will you?
