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What defines us as personalities? Is it our background that creates our identities? Or our families, where we lived, the way we grew up and were educated, the jobs we had? Yes, all of the above, but more fundamental than all of these is our brain. This is apparent when we lose even one of our cognitive abilities. People who develop a brain disorder may find that their identity, their sense of self, can undergo dramatic changes. Through the stories of seven of his patients, the acclaimed Oxford University neurologist Masud Husain shows us how our brains create our identity, how it can change and sometimes be restored. Among the people we meet is a man who stopped having words, a woman who no longer cared about others' opinions, and another who, losing her memory, began to believe she was in a relationship with the man who was actually her husband. These fascinating human dramas reveal how our identities are created by different functions within the brain. They show how modern neuroscience can help explain the changes in behavior that occur when our perception, attention, memory, motivation, or empathy change. By understanding how our brain normally works, neurologists bring hope to patients with brain disorders and illuminate the human experience. The result of this journey will spark new ideas about who we really are and why we act the ways we do.
Manufacturer
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Type
- Sociology, Woman
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 288
- Release Date
- 26/02/2026
- Publication Date
- 2026
- Dimensions
- 12.9x19.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781837261109
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