A review by dcunitz
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

"In fact, while we joke about a poor memory as a sieve, that's actually the wrong way around. Sieves let water leak through, but they catch the substantial things - they catch what we want to preserve."