Neurologist and author Pria Anand will host a virtual chat about her new book, The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains, on Thursday, July 31, and Edison Public Library cardholders are invited to join the conversation.
The Mind Electric speaks to the stories we tell ourselves about our brains, and the stories that our brains tell to us. Anand reveals—through case study, history, fable, and memoir—all that the medical establishment has overlooked: the complexity and wonder of brains in health and in extremis, and the vast gray area between sanity and insanity, doctor and patient, and illness and wellness, each separated from the next by the thin veneer of a different story.
From the Boston hospital where she treats her patients and her childhood years in India, to Isla Providencia in the Caribbean and the Republic of Guinea in West Africa, Anand demonstrates the compelling paradox at the heart of neurology: that even the most peculiar symptoms can show us something universal about ourselves as humans.
Register now to join this intriguing virtual conversation taking place at 2:00pm and to submit questions for the author. |
