How the Brain Lost Its Mind

Allan H. Ropper, M.D., is professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and Raymond D. Adams Master Clinician of the Department of Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is also a deputy editor of The New England Journal of Medicine and a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, the Royal College of Physicians, and the American College of Physicians. Dr. Ropper is an author of the most widely consulted textbook of neurology, Principles of Neurology, currently in its eleventh edition, and coauthor with Brian David Burrell of Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole.

Brian David Burrell is a member of the mathematics faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A teacher and writer, he is the author of several books, including Postcards from the Brain Museum, The Words We Live By, and, jointly with Dr. Allan H. Ropper, Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole. He is an authority on brain collections worldwide, and has discussed his work on NBC's Today, C-SPAN's Booknotes, and NPR's Morning Edition.