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  Published
2015
  
  In the tradition of Oliver Sacks, a tour of the latest neuroscience of schizophrenia, autism,
Alzheimer’s disease, ecstatic epilepsy, Cotard’s syndrome, out-of-body experiences, and other
disorders—revealing the awesome power of the human sense of self from a master of science journalism
  
  Anil Ananthaswamy’s extensive in-depth interviews venture into the lives of individuals who offer
perspectives that will change how you think about who you are. These individuals all lost some part of what we think of
as our self, but they then offer remarkable, sometimes heart-wrenching insights into what remains. One man cut off his
own leg. Another became one with the universe.
  
  We are learning about the self at a level of detail that
Descartes (“I think therefore I am”) could never have imagined. Recent research into Alzheimer’s
illuminates how memory creates your narrative self by using the same part of your brain for your past as for your
future. But wait, those afflicted with Cotard’s syndrome think they are already dead; in a way, they believe that
“I think therefore I am not.” Who—or what—can say that? Neuroscience has identified specific
regions of the brain that, when they misfire, can cause the self to move back and forth between the body and a
doppelgänger, or to leave the body entirely. So where in the brain, or mind, or body, is the self actually located?
As Ananthaswamy elegantly reports, neuroscientists themselves now see that the elusive sense of self is both everywhere
and nowhere in the human brain.
  
  
  Review
  
  Praise for The Man Who Wasn't
There
  
  “You’ll never see yourself—or others—the same way again.”
  —People
  
  “The gallery of personal, often tender, portraits of patients is impressive and
reminiscent of the writings of Oliver Sacks… A skilled science journalist, Ananthaswamy excels at making
theoretical concepts and experimental procedures both comprehensible and compelling.”
  —Science

 
  “In The Man Who Wasn’t There, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy smartly explores the nature of the
self by way of several mental conditions that eat away at patients’ identities… Following in the steps of
Oliver Sacks’s “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” (1985) and V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra
Blakeslee’s “Phantoms in the Brain” (1999), Ananthaswamy uses neuropsychology and narrative to take
us inside the heads of people experiencing realities very different from our own.”
  —Washington
Post
  
  “Anil Ananthaswamy’s exploration of the human ‘self’ is a blazingly
original excursion through the brain—as well as a fascinating catalog of bizarre disorders.”
 
—Entertainment Weekly
  
  "Autobiographies hinging on conditions such as Asperger's syndrome and
schizophrenia are proliferating, but there is little to fill the void between such accounts and the scientific
literature. Linking experiences with experiments, and individuals with numbers, Ananthaswamy bridges that gap
convincingly."
  —Nature
  
  “When you think 'beach read," you probably don't think
"neuroscience." But science journalist Ananthaswamy has a knack for making difficult topics accessible to
everyone.”
  —Men’s Journal 
  
  “[The Man Who Wasn’t There]
illuminates some of the most provocative questions at the boundary of science and philosophy.”
 
—Columbus Dispatch
  
  “Science journalist Ananthaswamy skillfully inspects the bewildering
connections among brain, body, mind, self, and society… Readers will be fascinated by Ananthaswamy's chronicles as
he explores, with kindness and keen intelligence, the uncomfortable aberrations that reveal what it is to be
human.”
  —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
  
  “A provocative examination of deep
questions.”
  —Kirkus
  
  “If you like Oliver Sacks, you’ll love this new work
by Ananthaswamy…..”
  —Library Journal
   
  “A compelling and entertaining look
at the last untapped mystery, the true final frontier: the nature of our selves. Science journalism at its
best.”
  —Daniel J. Levitin, author of The Organized Mind and This Is Your Brain on Music
   
  “Stunning… poetic and incisive. Each of the patients is unique, special and incredible in revealing
something special about the mind, whether healthy or fragile. Ananthaswamy discovers the elusive nature of the very idea
of self and makes sense out of it. It is a remarkable achievement.”
  —Michael Gazzaniga, author of
Who’s in Charge? and Tales from Both Sides of the Brain
   
  “Ananthaswamy’s remarkable
achievement is to make sense of these unhappy individuals’ otherness, while holding on to their human sameness.
You’ll come away enlightened and chastened, asking searching questions about who you are.”
 
—Nicholas Humphrey, Cambridge University, author of A History of the Mind
   
  “Like Oliver
Sacks, Ananthaswamy brings both erudition and sensitivity to his narrative so that we learn as much, and maybe more,
from his subjects as we do from the scientists we meet along the way…. You’ll emerge with renewed wonder
about the simple experience of being you.”
  —Anil Seth, University of Sussex, Editor-in-Chief,
Neuroscience of Consciousness
   
  “A wide range of engrossing (and many just plain weird) stories
elegantly weaving together insights from psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience. An informative, exciting, and
slightly creepy tour of some profound questions about human nature.”
  —David Poeppel, Director,
Max-Planck Institute and Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, NYU
   
  “In this lucid and
personable analysis by Ananthaswamy, the self appears an illusion, which nevertheless feels very real to most of us.
Since no organism can do without this mental anchor, nature has found a way to concoct one for us.”
 
—Frans de Waal, author of The Bonobo and The Atheist
  
  
  Praise of Anil Ananthaswamy's The
Edge of Physics:
  
  “A thrilling ride!” —Sean Carroll, author of The Particle at the End
of the Universe
  
  “Displays a writer’s touch for fascinating detail.” —The
Washington Post
  
  “A wonder-steeped page-turner.” —Seed
  About the Author
 

  ANIL ANANTHASWAMY is former deputy news editor and current consultant for New Scientist. He is a guest editor at
UC Santa Cruz’s renowned science-writing program and teaches an annual science journalism workshop at the
National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India. He is a freelance feature editor for the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science’s “Front Matter” and has written for National Geographic News, Discover,
and Matter. He has been a columnist for PBS NOVA’s The Nature of Reality blog. He won the UK Institute of
Physics’ Physics Journalism award and the British Association of Science Writers’ award for Best
Investigative Journalism. His first book, The Edge of Physics, was voted book of the year in 2010 by Physics World. He
lives in Bangalore, India, and Berkeley, California.  						

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