Explore the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains in Pria Anand Author Talk

TOMS RIVER – The human mind is endlessly fascinating and mysterious. Explore its wonder during a fascinating virtual conversation with neurologist and author Pria Anand while she chats about her new book, The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains at 2 p.m. Thursday, July 31.

The Mind Electric speaks to the stories we tell ourselves about our brains, and the stories our brains tell to us. Anand reveals – through case study, history, fable, and memoir – all that the medical establishment has overlooked: the complexity and wonder of brains in health and in extremis, and the vast gray area between sanity and insanity, doctor and patient, and illness and wellness, each separated from the next by the thin veneer of a different story.

Moving from the Boston hospital where she treats her patients, to her childhood years in India, to Isla Providencia in the Caribbean and to the Republic of Guinea in West Africa, she demonstrates again and again the compelling paradox at the heart of neurology: that even the most peculiar symptoms can show us something universal about ourselves as humans.

Pria Anand is a neurologist at the Boston Medical Center and an Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Medicine. She is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Medical School. She trained in neurology, neuro-infectious diseases, and neuroimmunology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Registration is required for this free program. To register, or for more information, visit tinyurl.com/AnandOCL, stop by your local OCL branch, or call 732-349-6200.

Ocean County Library cardholders can request The Mind Electric in various formats at tinyurl.com/MindElectricOCL.

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