The Tell-Tale Brain - V. S. Ramachandran

* V.S. Ramachandran has exploded the boundaries of modern science - so much so that he has been praised by Richard Dawkins as a latter-day Marco Polo.

*A specialist in brain damage, he is famous for an instinctive, intuitive approach to neurological disordersthat has led him to successfully 'amputate' phantom limbs, as well as solving the riddles of apotemnophilia (an obsession with self-amputation), and Capgrass syndrome (where patients who are in all other respects fully recovered become convinced that their loved ones are imposters).

This new book will explorewhy the human brain is so uniqueandhow it became so enchantingly complex.Taking us to the frontiers of neurology, he reveals what baffling and extreme case studies can teach us about the brain and how it evolved. Along the way we hearstories that are by turns moving, funny, tragic and disturbing, but always utterly fascinating.