Unthinkable
Our brains are far stranger than we think We take for granted that we can remember, feel emotion, navigate, empathize, and understand the world around us, but how would our lives change if these abilities were dramatically enhanced or disappeared overnight Helen Thomson has spent years traveling the world, tracking down incredibly rare brain disorders In Unthinkable she tells the stories of nine extraordinary people she encountered along the way From the man who thinks he s a tiger to the doctor who feels the pain of others just by looking at them to a woman who hears music that s not there, their experiences illustrate how the brain can shape our lives in unexpected and, in some cases, brilliant and alarming ways.Story by remarkable story, Unthinkable takes us on an unforgettable journey through the human brain Discover how to forge memories that never disappear, how to grow an alien limb, and how to make better decisions Learn how to hallucinate and how to make yourself happier in a split second Find out how to avoid getting lost, how to see of your reality, even how exactly you can confirm you are alive Think the unthinkable. Free Read Unthinkable By Helen Thomson For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This is the sort of book I like Neurology, problems of the brain told through the stories of people who suffer from them In the hands of a brilliant writer, like Oliver Sacks, both the person and their issues come to life and we see the author too In this book there are nine problems, all neurological except one, told through the stories of nine people including HM, does everyone have to include him The definitive book for me was Permanent Present Tense The Unforgettable Life of the Amnes This is the sort of book I like Neurology, problems of the brain told through the stories of people who suffer from them In the hands of a brilliant writer, like Oliver Sacks, both the person and their issues come to life and we see the author too In this book there are nine problems, all neurological except one, told through the stories of nine people including HM, does everyone have to include him The definitive book for me was Permanent Present Tense The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H M All the people seem to be jolly good characters who rather enjoy their issues like synaesthesia or else in a jolly good way, deal with it, like the deaf lady with continual audio hallucinations I didn t feel I knew any of the people and therefore didn t identify or sympathise with them If you can t connect with the characters in a book, fiction or non fiction, it s a kind...3.5 Our brains are capable of so many things, such a complex organ, and the least understood This book highlights the many ways a glitch in the circuitry of the brain can cause some unique, and at times harrowing conditions I was drawn to this book because of a show on TV I saw a while back It featured some people who can remember in detail every day of their lives I have a pretty good memory, but nothing close to that, but I was curious about how that type of memory came to be, what were th 3.5 Our brains are capable of so many things, such a complex organ, and the least understood This book highlights the many ways a glitch in the circuitry of the brain can cause some unique, and at times harrowing conditions I was drawn to this book because of a show on TV I saw a while back It featured some people who can remember in detail every day of their lives I have a pretty good memory, but nothing close to that, but I was curious about how that type of memory came to be, what were the changes in the brain Memory as a whole interests me, as the closer I get to the age where memory supposedly drops off, can that be prevented This is the first topic covered, the science behind memory, well explained in understandable terms by the author who even offers tips on how to improve memory...I really liked that one Brains are so intriguing, so interesting, so important The stories that were mentioned in this book are outstanding one by one, and I enjoyed and was interested throughout the whole book.The first part is talking about people with exceptional memory And maybe that was the best start for me as a person that has a really great memory as well Later, the reader is introduced to a vast amount of syndromes such as people that cannot navigate and are consonantly lost, or peo I really liked that one Brains are so intriguing, so interesting, so important The stories that were mentioned in this book are outstanding one by one, and I enjoyed...I truly don t know what I expected with this book But it sure was some content with ascientific and specific study core I might have given it a 3 star if the tone had not been as off as I felt it to be She s Miss Friendly fellow well met kind of writer who lets you know every nuance or conversational tidbit during the exchanges with some of these witnesses, or people who have studied or been medical personnel to the witnesses or cases cited.It s me and not the book But even so, fro I truly don t know what I expected with this book But it sure was some content with ascientific and specific study core I might have given it a 3 star if the tone had not been as off as I felt it to be She s Miss Friendly fellow well met kind of writer who lets you know every nuance or conversational tidbit during the exchanges with some of these witnesses, or people who have studied or been medical p...Thomson travels the world meeting various people with strange brains She meets a man who thought he was dead, a woman who can get lost in her own house and a man who believes he turns into a tiger For anybody i...Up until the final chapter this trodded familiar territory, and what made it valuable wasn t the originality but the author s earnest curiosity and her meetings and interviews with people suffering from the neurologica...The brain is a magnificent organ huge understatement We ve all marvelled at the human brain, at one time or another, even when it has us do something insanely ridiculous I m reminded of the time I forgot that we had a new family car, and spent ten or so minutes looking for the one we had sold the month before So distracted I had been in getting out of the rain, that the new car had slipped my mind completely That, and I was drenched Oh, how the mind works Lucky for us, Helen Thomson brings The brain is a magnificent organ huge understatement We ve all marvelled at the human brain, at one time or another, even when it has us do something insanely ridiculous I m reminded of the time I forgot that we had a new family car, and spent ten or so minutes looking for the one we had sold the month before So distracted I had been in getting out of the rain, that the new car had slipped my mind completely That, and I was drenched Oh, how the mind works Lucky for us, Helen Thomson brings together farintriguing stories of individuals and how their extraordinary brains work We all hear people discuss how not everyone sees the world through the same lens as us, we learnt this with the blue ...Thomson has an engaging way of presenting kind of narrative summaries of neurological research framed by her travels to meet different people whose brains are wired in non mainstream ways Her research really focuses on sense of self people who are synthesthetes, people with very active mirror nuerons, people who turn into tigers, and people who are lost within their own houses.The science in presented in easy to read chunks and never delved beyond surface level explanations of the research I Thomson has an engaging way of presenting kind of narrative summaries of neurological research framed by her travels to meet different people whose brains are wired in non mainstream ways Her research really focuses on sense of self people who are synthesthetes, people with very active mirror nuerons, people who turn into tigers, and people who are lost within their own houses.The science in presented in easy to read chunks and never delved beyond surface level explanations of the research I wished there had been a bitscience, but the book as it is is pretty easy to digest for all levels So...In the tradition of Alexander Luria and Oliver Sacks, Unthinkable delves into our current understanding of the human brain via compassionate profiles of neurodivergent human beings Helen Thomson s writing is not exactly colorful or distinctive, but it covers a lot of scientific ground with impressively succint explanations In fact, this is probably one of the most easily consumable books that you ll ever find on this subject.Each chapter is equally interesting, but I thought the essays about In the tradition of Alexander Luria and Oliver Sacks, U...A glimpse to the extremes our brains are capable ofA wonderfully written book, opening up the complexity of our brains through extreme mal or over functioning cases Makes you appreciate who you are and beopen to the uniqueness of the minds around us.
- 12 June 2018 Helen Thomson
- ebook
- 256 pages
- 0062391186
- Helen Thomson
- Unthinkable