Award-winning author and leading neurologist Masud Husain shares seven fascinating cases of brain disorders from across his career – and shows what they can teach us about our own brains
What makes us who we are?
Through the stories of seven of his patients, acclaimed Oxford University neurologist Masud Husain shows us how our brains create, change and can even restore our identity. Husain introduces us to a man who ran out of words, a woman who lost all inhibitions and another who believed she was having an affair with the man who was really her husband.
These compelling human dramas reveal how our identities are created by different functions within the brain. It will ignite new ideas about who we really are – and why we act in the ways we do.
Masud Husain is Professor of Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow at New College, Oxford. Unusually, he works across departments of neuroscience, brain imaging and psychology to understand cognitive functions in both healthy people and patients with brain disorders. Masud is Editor-in-Chief of Brain, a leading international journal of neurology. First established in 1878, Brain is widely considered to be the most influential publication in the field, with its monthly editorials being a key source of authoritative perspectives. @MasudHusain masudhusain.org.
Husain will be in conversation with Dr. Peter Turkeltaub, a neuroscientist and board-certified cognitive neurologist focusing on stroke neurorehabilitation. Dr. Turkeltaub’s clinical efforts are devoted to post-stroke language and cognitive impairments, primarily aphasia. He is part of an interdisciplinary care team at the Aphasia Clinic at MedStar NRH that makes recommendations for optimizing recovery from post-stroke aphasia.