A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain

A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain

By
Sara Manning Peskin
Sara Manning Peskin
2022 • 214 pages

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285 books

Brain

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Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Madness: A Bipolar Life
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Behind the Gates of Gomorrah: A Year With the Criminally Insane
Marbles

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140 books

Shorts

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The Old Order
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Complete Stories
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

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69 books

Sci Med

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Lab Girl
Sex, Lies, and Handwriting
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
H is for Hawk
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery

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My Library

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Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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36 books

Wanna Read

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Eva
Part of Your World
An Unquiet Mind
Love and Other Words
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon
The Princess Bride

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99 books

History

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Katlyn
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Atlas Obscura
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
Suburban Legends: True Tales of Murder, Mayhem, and Minivans
The Devil's Cloth : A History of Stripes

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52 books

Medicine

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Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings
Get Well Soon

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163 books

Nonfiction

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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
The Botany of Desire
The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

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14 books

Biology

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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
The Botany of Desire
The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators
Crow Planet

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276 books

Medicine

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Unwell Women
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work
Mad, Bad And Sad
The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Body Respect
Strange Medicine

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272 books

Science And Engineering

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Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Body Respect
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work
Robotics, AI, and Humanity: Science, Ethics, and Policy
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

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Neuroscience

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Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
Neuroexistentialism
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Head Case: My Brain and Other Wonders
Mind of Its Own

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196 books

Psychology

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Mad, Bad And Sad
The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
Women and Genocide: Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators
What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves

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8 books

Mental Illness

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Who Put This Song On?
Fans of the Impossible Life
Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
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A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain