One of the world's leading neurologists reveals the extraordinary stories behind some of the brain disorders that he and his staff at the Harvard Medical School endeavour to treat. The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller
Dr Allan H. Ropper is a Professor at Harvard Medical School and the
Raymond D. Adams Master Clinician at Brigham and Women's Hospital
in Boston. He is credited with founding the field of neurological
intensive care and counts Michael J. Fox among his patients.
B. D. Burrell is the author of Postcards from the Brain Museum. He
has appeared on the Today Show, Booknotes, and NPR's Morning
Edition. He divides his time between writing and statistical
research with neuroscientific applications.
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole tells it like it is on the front line
of clinical neurology. Engagingly written, informative, often
funny, it also manages to be moving without slipping into the
sentimentality that too often infests medical writing... If ever
anything goes wrong with my brain, I'd like a doctor like Ropper to
help sort me out.
*Daily Telegraph*
Ropper charts his 40-year career using dozens of case histories:
think Oliver Sacks meets Gregory House, with a sprinkling of a
hypochondriac's worst nightmare. Each tale illuminates the
remarkable way, not just in which the brain works, but how Ropper
diagnoses what is going on.
*Sunday Times*
Told in a breezy style through a series of real-life case studies,
Ropper's book offers a fascinating glimpse of the ways in which our
brain can go wrong.
*Financial Times*
Allan Ropper's new memoir, Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole, has the
hard-boiled style of a Raymond Chandler novel. Like a real-life Dr
House, Ropper follows hunches and has sudden startling
insights.
*The Times*
Peppered with insights into the scientific method, emphasizing that
it's not the cold, rational, Sherlock Holmes-like deductive process
it's often portrayed to be. Medical writing at its best.
*V. S. Ramachandran, bestselling author of The Tell-Tale Brain*
Fantastic . . . This peek inside the sick brain, by a foremost
neurologist, helps readers truly appreciate how calamities like
brain tumors, stroke, Parkinson's, seizures and other diseases
affect us. His stories are sometimes painful, sometimes
heartwarming, but invariably tremendously illuminating.
*Elizabeth Loftus, author of The Myth of Repressed Memory*
An in-the-trenches exploration of the challenging world of the
clinical neurologist. From the quotidian to the exotic, from the
heart-breaking to the humorous, the authors present an honest and
compelling look at one of medicine's most fascinating
specialties.
*Dr Michael Collins, author of Hot Lights, Cold Steel*
Fascinating
*Observer*
Filled with patient histories and puzzling symptoms waiting to be
understood, Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole is a detective novel, and
despite his flapping white coat and squeaking Crocs, Ropper is
Humphrey Bogart, cerebral yet tough and blessed with a terse
wit.
*New Statesman*
In the hands of a lesser writer, this book might have been nothing
more than a collection of colorful tales about the many ways a
human brain can break down. But Dr. Ropper and Mr. Burrell manage
to tell a more profound story about the value of men over
machines.
*New York Times*
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