Name: The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
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Author: Sam Kean

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Chapter 1 When Brains Break, We Learn

A man who lost his sense of smell also lost his ability to feel emotions - the two are wired together in ways scientists never expected. Patients with…

Chapter 2 The Brain Has an Address Book 🔒

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Chapter 3 Memory Is Not a Recording 🔒

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Chapter 4 Smell, Emotion, and the Ancient Brain 🔒

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Chapter 5 You Might Be Two People 🔒

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Chapter 6 How to Read Your Own Brain Better 🔒

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Chapter 7 The Broken Reveal the Whole 🔒

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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

Before brain scans and textbooks, doctors learned how the

mind works the hard way: from patients who lost pieces of

themselves to injury, illness, and the occasional sword

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