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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk - On the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains with Pria Anand
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to a fascinating conversation with neurologist 
 and author Pria Anand to chat about her new book The Mind Electric: A 
 Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains (forthcoming June 
 10\, 2025).\n\nThe Mind Electric speaks to the stories we tell ourselves 
 about our brains\, and the stories that our brains tell to us.\n\nA 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 single song. In neurology\, 
 illness is inextricably linked with narrative\, the clues to unraveling 
 these mysteries hidden in both the details of a patient's story and the 
 tells of their body.\n\nStories are etched into the very structure of our 
 brains\, coded so deeply that the impulse for storytelling survives and 
 even surges after the most devastating injuries. But our brains are also 
 porous—the stories they concoct are shaped by cultural narratives about 
 bodies and illness that permeate the minds of doctors and patients alike. 
 In the history of medicine\, some stories are heard\, while others—the 
 narratives of women\, of Black and brown people\, of displaced people\, of 
 disempowered people—are too often dismissed.\n\nIn The Mind Electric\, 
 neurologist Pria 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.\n\nMoving from the Boston hospital where she treats her patients\, 
 to her childhood years in India\, to Isla Providencia in the Caribbean and 
 to the Republic of Guinea in West Africa\, she demonstrates again and again 
 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!\n\nAbout 
 the Author: Pria Anand is a neurologist at the Boston Medical Center and an 
 Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Medicine. She is a 
 graduate of Yale University and Stanford Medical School\, and she trained 
 in neurology\, neuro-infectious diseases\, and neuroimmunology at the Johns 
 Hopkins Hospital and the Massachusetts General Hospital.\n\n \n\nRegister 
 here\n\n
ORGANIZER;CN="Natalie Dielman":MAILTO:natalie.dielman@waylibrary.info
CATEGORIES:Adult Program
CONTACT;CN="Natalie Dielman":MAILTO:natalie.dielman@waylibrary.info
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