Masud Husain, "Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain" (Canongate, 2025)

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Masud Husain, "Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain" (Canongate, 2025) is an episode from New Books in Psychology by New Books Network.

This episode is 58:40 long.

This episode was published on Apr 22, 2026.

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