Reaching Down The Rabbit Hole - Extraordinary Journeys Into The Human Brain

Reaching Down The Rabbit Hole - Extraordinary Journeys Into The Human Brain is a book by Dr Allan Ropper. It presents accounts drawn from the Neurology Unit at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Synopsis

The book asks what it means to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack, and sets out the stories behind life-altering afflictions encountered by Dr Ropper and his staff. It describes a clinical world where unusual and unsettling symptoms can appear without warning, confronting patients and clinicians with urgent questions.

Through these cases, Dr Ropper explores how treatment and counselling begin when a person’s life may be changed forever. The narrative takes the reader into situations where decisions are complex and the stakes are high, with lives and minds described as hanging in the balance.