The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist\'s Quest For What Makes Us Human (Playaway Adult Nonfic.. details from bookadda

V.S. Ramachandran has exploded the boundaries of modern science -so much so that he has been praised by Richard Dawkins as alatter-day Marco Polo. A specialist in brain damage, he is famousfor an instinctive, intuitive approach to neurological disordersthat has led him to successfully 'amputate' phantom limbs, as wellas solving the riddles of apotemnophilia (an obsession withself-amputation), and Capgrass syndrome (where patients who are inall other respects fully recovered become convinced that theirloved ones are imposters). This new book will explore why the humanbrain is so unique and how it became so enchantingly complex.Taking us to the frontiers of neurology, he reveals what bafflingand extreme case studies can teach us about the brain and how itevolved. Along the way we hear stories that are by turns moving,funny, tragic and disturbing, but always utterly fascinating.