Book: Brainstorm – Detective Stories from the World of Neurology – Suzanne O’Sullivan
The author is a Consultant Neurologist in the UK – as an aside the UK aspect is welcome when so many of the books in this field stem from America – and in this book she uses a variety of anonymised case studies to review what happens when the brain...Book: The Disordered Mind – What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves- Eric R Kandel
Perhaps more than any other part of our body, the brain is the bit we don’t notice till it goes wrong. There is also the idea that it’s fixed and immutable, while we can learn and memorise, we can’t change structure – put simply the idea perpetuates that brain...Book: Why We Sleep – The New Science of Sleep and Dreams – Matthew Walker
Sleep – most of us probably feel we don’t have enough of it, both a curse of modern life and something which is supported in statistics. But apart from the subtle guilt of knowing you need some more (me too), and the not so subtle ache of insomnia and...Book: Doctoring Data – Dr Malcolm Kendrick
Doctoring Data: How to Sort Out Medical Advice from Medical Nonsense Today’s headline: Saturated Fat increases your risk of dying. Tomorrow’s headline: Saturated Fat protects you against cancer. Sometimes medical research reporting can be puzzling and down right...Socials and Feeds
