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Neurology

Best Article Science

Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind?

On the shared life of Tatiana and Krista Hogan:

The girls’ doctors believe it is entirely possible that the sensory input that one girl receives could somehow cross that bridge into the brain of the other. One girl drinks, another girl feels it.

Susan Dominus New York Times Magazine May 2011 25min Permalink

Best Article Science

Has Consciousness Lost Its Mind?

Is this the world’s most bizarre scholarly meeting?

Tom Bartlett Chronicle of Higher Education Jun 2018 20min Permalink

Science

The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain

Phil Kennedy set out to build the ultimate brain-computer interface. In the process, he almost lost his mind.

Daniel Engber Wired Jan 2016 20min Permalink

Science

Why We Keep Playing the Lottery

“It’s just beyond our experience—we have nothing in our evolutionary history that prepares us or primes us, no intellectual architecture, to try and grasp the remoteness of those odds.”

Adam Piore Nautilus Aug 2013 15min Permalink

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Aneurysm

The intricacies of a delicate operation.

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Excerpted from Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

Henry Marsh The Lit Hub Jun 2015 30min Permalink

Business Crime Science

Quiet Doctor, Lavish Insider: A Parallel Life

A nationally respected neurologist feeds secrets to Wall Street.

Nathaniel Popper, Bill Vlasic New York Times Dec 2012 Permalink