Experimental Blog #25

Comments on "Can't Remember What I Forgot - The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research" by Sue Halpern and "The Male Brain" - A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think by Louann Brizendine

Both of these books seem to be exceptional examples of the incredible developements in the neurosciences of recent decades.
The first author, Sue Halpern, has a doctorate degree and once taught at a prestigious medical college, but she is more known for her writing as an educated "outsider" to science or medicine. Her whole book is a very detailed account of research into the treatment for Alzheimer's desease. She could be described as obsessed with Alzheimer's desease to the point of being tedious, but she can be excused because this desease apparently runs in her family. Besides that, her book is none the less interesting to people with other neurological deficits.
The author of the second book, Louann Brizendine, is a practicing medical doctor, or psychiatrist, and a professor of clinical psychiatry. Her first book, "The Female Brain", was a "New York Times" best seller. Although, apparently, it did not escape some criticism.
All that I will say about her second book, "The Male Brain", is that it was similar to taking very strong medicine, or receiving very severe treatment for those of us with unlucky neurological deficits. But it was a considerable, or at least significant, help; in spite of having to recover from her medicine, or treatment.