On the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains with Pria Anand

On the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains with Pria Anand

A girl believes she has been struck blind for stealing a kiss. A mother watches while 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, and the clues to unraveling these mysteries are hidden in both the details of a patient's story and the tells of their body. Stories 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 Mind Electric, neurologist Pria Anand reveals 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.

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.

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