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'Powerful' FINANCIAL TIMES<BR>'Thought-provoking' NEW SCIENTIST<BR>'Fascinating' DAILY MAIL<BR><BR>WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE<BR>A FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND GUARDIAN BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR<BR><BR>What makes us who we are? <BR><BR>Through the stories of seven of his patients, acclaimed Oxford University neurologist Masud Husain shows us how our brains create, change and can even restore our identity. Husain introduces us to a man who ran out of words, a woman who lost all inhibitions and another who believed she was having an affair with the man who was really her husband.<BR><BR>These compelling human dramas reveal how our identities are created by different functions within the brain. It will ignite new ideas about who we really are - and why we act in the ways we do.

Subtitle
What a Neurologist's Patients Taught Him About the Brain

H | W | D | g
128 mm | 196 mm | 19 mm | 230 gr

Publication year
2026

Age rating
0

Edition
Taschenbuch

Publisher
Canongate

ISBN-10
1837261105

Author
Husain, Masud

Language
Englisch

Page Count
288

Topics
Biopsychologie, physiologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie, Psychologie: Theorien und Denkschulen, Neurologie und klinische Neurophysiologie, Populärwissenschaftliche Werke

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