The tale of the dueling neurosurgeons : the history of the human brain as revealed by true stories of trauma, madness, and recovery / Sam Kean.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2014Edition: First editionDescription: 407 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316182348 (hbk.)
- 0316182346 (hbk.)
- Dueling neurosurgeons
- History of the human brain
- 617.4/80232Â 23
- QP376Â .K36 2014
- WL 300
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Independence Community College Library Adult Non-Fiction | Independence Community College Library | Adult Books | 617.48 K19t 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Paid for with a Collection Development Grant from the Southeast KS Library System | 32130627372292 | ||
Book | Iola Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Iola Public Library | Adult Books | 617.48 Kean, Sam (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Purchased with funds from the Jeffrey Klotzbach Memorial. | 34311002446731 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-395) and index.
Gross anatomy. The dueling neurosurgeons -- Cells, senses, circuits. The assassin's soup ; Wiring and rewiring ; Facing brain damage -- Body and brain. The brain's motor ; The laughing disease ; Sex and punishment -- Beliefs and delusions. The sacred disease ; "Sleights of mind" -- Consciousness. Honest lying ; Left, right, and center ; The man, the myth, the legend.
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