Along the way, Peskin entertains with tales of the sometimes outlandish, often criticized, and forever devoted scientists who discovered it all. One after another, poor farmers in South Carolina drop dead from a mysterious epidemic of dementia.With an intoxicating blend of history and intrigue, Sara Manning Peskin invites readers to play medical detective, tracing each diagnosis from the patient to an ailing nervous system. The characters in A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain include patients, scientists, Nobel laureates, and even Abraham Lincoln. A man planning to propose marriage instead becomes violently enraged, gripped by body spasms so severe that he nearly bites off his own tongue. A New York Times Editors ChoiceRiveting stories of the brain on the brink, from an acclaimed cognitive neurologist.Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. The way it moves from character to character is strikingly similar to the style used in the bestselling Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande.
By dinner, she is strapped to a hospital bed, convinced she is battling zombies. Here are gripping accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their wake.A college student cannot remember if she has eaten breakfast. Read / Download A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked BrainĭESCRIPTION BOOK : Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds.
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