Storm Brain: the Hippocrates Book of the Brain – Published in December 2021

Edited by Wendy French, Michael Hulse and Donald Singer

Leading medical professionals, whose practice and research around the world has led them to a keen interest in stroke, contribute information and advice to help every one of us understand and avert stroke or manage its consequences.

The editors also invited poets around the English-speaking world to donate poems on the subject of the brain and its afflictions. Among the poets in this book are Roo Borson and Kim Maltman, Peter Goldsworthy, Elizabeth Smither, Mimi Khalvati, Gwyneth Lewis, Jeffrey Harrison, Marilyn Bowering, Mary O’Donnell, Lawrence Sail, Claire Trévien, Philip Gross and C. K. Stead.

This companion volume to the earlier Hippocrates Book of the Heart was published in December 2021, with a medical launch on Updates on Stroke on Monday 6th December 2021, with special readings by 43 of the poets featured in the same month.

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Already understood by Plato as the seat of thought and analysis, the brain has been an object of scientific study at least since the days of the ancient Egyptians. In recent times, the impressive advances of neuroscience have given us modern brain surgery and a growing understanding of the nature of stroke and dementia. At the same time, millions worldwide experience either in themselves or in loved ones the ravages wrought on the individual when the brain suffers an attack.

Leading medical professionals, whose practice and research has led them to a keen interest in stroke, contribute information and advice to help every one of us understand and avert stroke or manage its consequences.

The result, a companion volume to the earlier Hippocrates Book of the Heart, will give pleasure and helpful instruction.

Storm Brain was made possible by the generous support of the Cardiovascular Research Trust The Healthy Heart Charity.

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