Our Brains, Our Selves [electronic resource] : What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain
Masud Husain2025
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What makes us who we are? Is it our background that creates our identities? Or
our families, where we lived, how we were brought up and educated, the jobs
we’ve held? Yes, all of the above, but more fundamental than any of these is
our brain.
This is never more evident than if we lose even a single one of our cognitive
abilities. People who develop a brain disorder can find that their identity,
their sense of self, can undergo dramatic changes. Through the stories of seven
of his patients, acclaimed Oxford University neurologist Masud Husain shows us
how our brains create our identity, how that identity can be changed, and
sometimes even be restored. Among the people we encounter is a man who ran out
of words, a woman who stopped caring what others thought of her and another who,
losing her memory, started to believe she was having an affair with the man who
was really her husband.
These compelling human dramas reveal how our identities are created by different
functi...
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Author:
Masud Husain, Author
Imprint:
Edinburgh United Kingdom : Canongate Books, 2025
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Audience:
Tertiary education
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781837260324
Language:
English
BRN:
528343
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