The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains Carrie Finison the place where she learned

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his daily routine features ineffective death therapy

but whoever falls outside the boundaries of privilege

she is happiest when in the studio… sweating

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The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains Carrie Finison the place where she learnedIn this collection of medical tales reminiscent of Oliver Sacks and the best of medical writing (Abraham Verghese, author of The Covenant of Water), a neurologist reckons with the stories we tell about our brains, and the stories our brains tell us. A girl believes she has been struck blind for stealing a kiss. A mother watches helplessly as each of her children is replaced by a changeling. A woman is haunted each month by the same four chords of a