The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
Subtitle: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Little, Brown And Company
Published: May 2014
Place of publication: New York, Boston, London
Language: eng
Format: Hard cover
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780316182348
Copyright date: 2014
Table of contents: title: Part I:; title: Gross Anatomy; title: Introduction/5; title: Chapter One: The Dueling Neurosurgeons/17; title: Part Two:; title: Cells, Senses, Circuits; title: Chapter Two: The Assassin's Soup/43; title: Chapter Three: Wiring and Rewiring/73; title: Chapter Four: Facing Brain Damage/99; title: Part III:; title: Body and Brain; title: Chapter Five: The Brain's Motor/129; title: Chapter Six: The Laughing Disease/155; title: Chapter Seven: Sex and Punishment/183; title: Part IV:; title: Beliefs and Delusions; title: Chapter Eight: The Sacred Disease/215; title: Chapter Nine: " Sleights of Mind " /241; title: Part V:; title: CONSCIOUSNESS; title: Chapter Ten: Honest Lying/267; title: Chapter Eleven: Left, Right, and center/299; title: Chapter Twelve: The Man, the Myth, the Legend/329; title: Acknowledgements/357; title: Notes and Miscellanea/359; title: Works Cited/383; title: Index/397