If Your Brain Changed Slightly, Would You Still Be You? with Masud Husain

Could a tiny injury to your brain change your personality? If your friends didn’t know something had happened in your brain, would they just think you’re choosing to act strangely? What if the self is nothing but a fragile coalition of neural processes? Join Eagleman today with Masud Husain, a neurologist and neuroscientist at Oxford, to explore fascinating case studies about how changes in the brain lead to changes in the self.

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Masud Husain. Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain.

David Eagleman. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain.

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