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In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes: the "man without a shadow," who will be known, in time, as the most-studied and most famous amnesiac in history. A vicious infection has clouded anything beyond the last seventy seconds just beyond the fog of memory. Over the course of thirty years, the two embark on mirrored journeys of self-discovery: Margot, enthralled by her charming, mysterious, and deeply lonely patient, as well as her...
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Little A
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[2022]
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English
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After a devastating loss, Amanda Jackson develops pseudocyesis, believing she’s still pregnant, and becomes involved with a neuroscientist who, as he spirals deeper in her illness, must confront the fraught intersection of science, death and human emotion.
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2014.
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English
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Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. And as he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves. Written with psychological depth...
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"A bus full of high school students has disappeared from Washington D.C. and FBI neuroscientist Sayer Altair must hunt down the culprit who has a link to her own past. After grieving the death of her fiancé and almost losing her job, Agent Sayer Altair is finally starting to rebuild her life. Her research into the minds of psychopaths is breaking new ground and her strange little family is thriving. But Sayer's newfound happiness is threatened when...
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Forge
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Awakening from a months-long coma speaking the Lord's Prayer in the original Aramaic, twenty-five-year-old Zack Kashian inadvertently triggers media and religious frenzies before he is hired by a secret neuroscience group that researches near-death experiences.
6) The outlier
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Random House of Canada
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Cate Winter is a wildly successful neuroscientist and entrepreneur. But Cate has a secret: she grew up at the Cleckley Institute, a treatment facility for the rehabilitation of psychopathic children. And, as far as she knows, she is the institute's only success. Then Cate discovers the existence of another ex-patient and outlier. Though his identity is confidential, she breaks the rules and drops everything to track him down. But in the wake of a...
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