A review by lillian1998
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean
4.0
I will admit I didn’t pay 100% rapt attention to this book, and that’s because this book is my leisure read. It is entertaining in such a way that I don’t mind even if I don’t learn anything.
Sam Kean’s writing is engaging, accessible, and enrapturing. True to his word, this book does not stop at entry-level psychology case studies (the likes of the famous HM and Phineas Gage) - there were many more cases that were not covered in intro psych (my level of exposure to models of memory, brain scans, psych studies, etc) and intro neurophysiology/biology/human anatomy (my level of exposure to brain things), so not only was this read somewhat familiar and easy to get into, it also offered something more.
I listened to this audiobook as bedtime material, and it’s excellent.
Sam Kean’s writing is engaging, accessible, and enrapturing. True to his word, this book does not stop at entry-level psychology case studies (the likes of the famous HM and Phineas Gage) - there were many more cases that were not covered in intro psych (my level of exposure to models of memory, brain scans, psych studies, etc) and intro neurophysiology/biology/human anatomy (my level of exposure to brain things), so not only was this read somewhat familiar and easy to get into, it also offered something more.
I listened to this audiobook as bedtime material, and it’s excellent.