Brainstorm – Suzanne O’Sullivan
Brainstorm examines the stories of people whose symptoms are so strange even their doctor struggles to know how to solve them. A man who sees cartoon characters running across the room; a teenager who one day arrives home with inexplicably torn clothes; a girl whose world turns all Alice in Wonderland; another who transforms into a ragdoll whenever she even thinks about moving.
The brain is the most complex structure in the universe, and neurologists must puzzle out life-changing diagnoses from the tiniest of clues – it’s the ultimate in medical detective work. In this riveting book, one of the UK’s leading neurologists takes you with her as she follows the trail of her patients’ symptoms: feelings of déjà vu lead us to a damaged hippocampus; spitting and fidgeting to the right temporal lobe; fear of movement to a brain tumour; a missed heart beat to the limbic system.
It’s a journey that will open your eyes to the unfathomable intricacies of the brain, and the infinite variety of human capacity and experience.
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Review from Book Club Meeting:
For some of us it was the first non-fiction book but it definitely did not disappoint!
Despite the book description setting an expectation that it would involve some criminal cases, we agreed that the book was very interesting and informative. The author described her work with people who suffer from epilepsy, what were their circumstances and symptoms, their road to recovery, whilst weaving in information about human brain and history of the discovery of what different parts of brain are responsible for.
This book has been a recommendation from one of the Book Club members and I would like to thank her for it, as the book has received almost unanimously 4 stars!!