Now repeat after me: Stories from a neurosurgical hospital by Oksana Zinchenko

Now repeat after me: Stories from a neurosurgical hospital 

by Oksana Zinchenko

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My Ratings 4.5/5

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Synopsis

An older man who could not read a clock. A woman, begging the doctors to stop the awful smell haunting her everywhere. A man, who asks his mother for candies. A young man who closed his company became a priest and now is thinking secret agents are after him. A woman who does not speak anymore.
All these people are connected. All these people have a brain tumour.
This book contains a series of medical stories based on cases at neurosurgical hospital from neuropsychology, a healthcare professional who uses psychology to explore brain deficits and provide more information on the impact of brain damage on cognition and lifestyle of the patient. The reader together with the author starts a journey, where they try to find the answer, why the patient is laughing hard on nothing, or acts childishly, or lost his ability to comprehend speech or understand emotions - looking at this behaviour as a set of clues to find the location of brain damage. Each case is illustrated by many historical examples and conceptions from neuropsychology to guide the reader on our understanding of how the brain and behaviour are linked, and why some- times we could tell more even than brain scans only. This medical non-fiction book presents a great adventure to the world of the human brain and mind.

My Thoughts

Neuroscientist , writer, and researcher Dr Oksana Zinchenko specialised for three years at the neurosurgical hospital delivers a revolutionary message in Now Repeat After Me, a very important , informative and interesting book filled with interesting real life stories that should be read by all. Dr. Oksana Zinchenko takes the reader by the hand and carefully explains that the brain and human behaviour are linked.

With series of medical stories he shows us that our brains have the remarkable power to grow, change, overcome disabilities, learn, recover, and alter the very culture that has the potential to deeply affect human nature. Clear, fascinating, and gripping is how I would describe this book and invitation to understand how the brain can work. 

This book was absolutely fascinating. I have always been intrigued by how the brain works and, even though I am not a "science" person, I found this book easy to read and thoroughly enjoyable.

Now repeat after me leaves me with one major question: Why isn’t this book on the top of the bestseller list for all time?

Highly Recommended!