Unthinkable an extraordinary journey through the world's strangest brains

"Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson unlocks the biggest mysteries of the human brain by examining nine extraordinary cases."--Jacket.

Main Author: Thomson, Helen (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
Edition: First U.S. edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The strange life of the brain
  • Bob: never forgetting a moment
  • Sharon: Being permanently lost
  • RubeĢn: seeing auras
  • Tommy: switching personalities
  • Sylvia: an endless hallucination
  • Matar: turning into a tiger
  • Louise: becoming unreal
  • Graham: waking up dead
  • Joel: feeling other people's pain
  • Conclusion: Nothing is unthinkable.