Sam Kean, a famous American writer, a recognized master of the genre of popular science literature, offers a fascinating journey through time. You will learn how the idea of the brain has changed over the centuries and how curious, sometimes scary, and sometimes simply fantastic cases helped make breakthroughs in science and medicine. Each chapter of the book is an incredible, fascinating and true story about what the human brain is capable of if something (or someone) influences it from the outside, be it a disease, a surgeon’s scalpel or... an iron crowbar.