Brain research

Just finished Left Neglected. I liked this book a lot! I liked the way she described the difficulties/symptoms of Sarah’s condition without being clinical. I loved her sense of humor. I was amazed at the amount of research involved in writing the book and way she went about it.

So, I’m very excited to attend tonight’s UWEC Forum: V.S. Ramachandran. Here’s small blurb from the UWEC news release:

Ramachandran is known as a storyteller who is able to concretely and simply describe the most complicated inner workings of the brain. He is fascinated by patients who have unusual abilities or defects in the way they perceive the world. These include such puzzling phenomena as the phantom pain experienced in a missing limb, the inability to recognize a familiar face following a stroke, and the belief that one is actually dead. Ramachandran investigated many of these strange cases in his acclaimed book, "Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind" (1998)