![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "In "The Sea and the Almond," a young woman who suffers from daily grand mal seizures agrees to radical surgery that involved removal of the amygdala (from the Greek for "almond") and part of the hippocampus ("seahorse"), which is responsible for memory and all conscious recall. "How does the brain construct a "self," the essence of who we are as individuals? And how does the "self" respond to the deconstruction of its brain? A neuropsychologist with twenty-five years' experience and a runner-up for the prestigious Wellcome Trust Science Prize, Paul Broks writes with a doctor's precision and clarity in a series of narratives about the fascinating world of the neurologically impaired, delving not only into the inner lives of his patients, but into a deeper understanding of how we define who we are.". Into the silent land : travels in neuropsychology / Paul Broks Book Bib ID ![]()
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