Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains

A prizewinning journalist with a background in neuroscience, Helen Thomson spent years tracking down people who live with the world's most extraordinary neurological disorders-like a man who tried to break his back because his legs no longer felt like his own, and another who believed that he was dead for nine years. Not content to simply read about these cases on paper, Thomsonreached out to ten people with these afflictions, and they agreed to tell her their stories.

Leaving behind the sca...