A master neurologist's clinical tales--both funny and profound--of the evolution of the brain. No matter what the ailment--painful foot syndrome or mad cow disease--Dr. Klawans ultimately treated, or diagnosed, peoples brains. Here are his deductions from years of study.
As a sympathetic--and brilliant--brain detective, Harold Klawans treated people with a huge array of troubles, all of which boiled down to one complaint: something was wrong with their brains. From the woman suffering from painful foot and moving toe syndrome to the Indiana farmer who contacted a variant of mad cow disease from his herds of livestock, Klawans deduced a great deal from his patients, not only about the immediate causes of their ailments, but about the evolutionary underpinnings of their behavior.