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发表于2024-11-07
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike -- strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents -- and see how victims coped. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. Observers were amazed by the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed, altering victims' personalities. Parents suddenly couldn't recognize their own children. Pillars of the community became pathological liars. Some people couldn't speak but could still sing.
In The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, Sam Kean travels through time with stories of neurological curiosities: phantom limbs, Siamese twin brains, viruses that eat patients' memories, blind people who see through their tongues. He weaves these narratives together with prose that makes the pages fly by, to create a story of discovery that reaches back to the 1500s and the high-profile jousting accident that inspired this book's title.* With the lucid, masterful explanations and razor-sharp wit his fans have come to expect, Kean explores the brain's secret passageways and recounts the forgotten tales of the ordinary people whose struggles, resilience, and deep humanity made neuroscience possible.
*"The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons" refers to the case of French king Henri II, who in 1559 was lanced through the skull during a joust, resulting in one of the most significant cases in neuroscience history. For hundreds of years scientists have gained important lessons from traumatic accidents and illnesses, and such misfortunes still represent their greatest resource for discovery.
用一个个小故事,让我们更加深层滴了解到大脑的神奇。人到底为什么特别,我们每个人的性格个性,都去取决于我们大脑的一个小小的结构。现在依然觉得不可思议,我们每一个人都是一个脑子装在一个肉壳里,仅此而已。
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评分于门外汉来讲他这本书的科普简洁明了而且不失深度,更神奇的是在这个基础上能让专业人士读的津津有味【指我教授】
评分于门外汉来讲他这本书的科普简洁明了而且不失深度,更神奇的是在这个基础上能让专业人士读的津津有味【指我教授】
评分无赖式口吻来科普,哈哈哈。购于powell。
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024