If Your Brain Changes, Are You Still You? With Dr. Masud Husain

About this episode

Dr. Eeks discusses the impact of neurological changes on personal identity with Dr. Masud Husain.

Send us Fan Mail What makes you you? Is it your memories? Your personality? Your sense of humor? Your motivation? What happens when a neurological disease changes one of those things? In this episode of Causes or Cures, Dr. Eeks talks with neurologist, neuroscientist, and author Dr. Masud Husain about his new book, Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist's Patients Taught Him About the Brain. Drawing on the stories of seven patients with different neurological conditions, Dr. Husain explor...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Eeks

Guest: Dr. Masud Husain

Topics covered

• identity
• neurology
• memory
• personality
• neurological diseases

Keywords

• brain
• identity
• neurology
• memories
• personality
• disease
• patients

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist's Patients Taught Him About the Brain

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