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Neuro: Life on the Frontlines of Brain Surgery and Neurological Medicine
Neuro Life on the Frontlines of Brain Surgery and Neurological Medicine Author:David Noonan Based on the five years he spent reporting from the front lines of neurological medicine, NEURO- is journalist David Noonan's beautifully written exploration of the nervous system and the people who struggle to understand it. — You'll learn how the nervous system works, how it keeps us alive, and how it sparks the internal events that produce mov... more »ement , language, and thought. You'll retrace man's efforts to unlock the body's deepest secrets- from the holes prehistoric men scraped into each other's heads to the grisly, almost surrealistic psycho surgery of the 1940's. You'll watch today's surgeons at work deep inside the brain, and through a remarkable series of portraits, you'll hear the human side of medicine, from brain surgeons talking about the mistakes they have made, to the terminally ill reflecting on the future.« less