The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat was about different stories of how the brain affected a person especially like amnesia, and of frontal lobes of the brain that are damaged and cause problems for the patients. This book gave me insight of how diseases can occur just from a simple damage to the brain. It makes me feel sympathy for the people I read about just because of their stories, and how some had a normal life and then suddenly their life changes just from a seizure. It makes me wonder if I ever had a seizure could I cause damage to my brain.
Some of the stories that I read about the people having amnesia reminded me of a time where I meet an old lady who couldn’t remember if she meet me before. She would just keep telling me the same thing over and over ever few minutes. Even though I kept telling her the same answer I always wonder what could cause her to do that, and after reading this book it gave me more insight on how it happens and more importantly it describes what causes and where in the brain it affects.
The book was so descriptive probably because no one is that familiar with medical analysis. I like how it told not just of the person and their disease, but what could cause it and all the steps and it speaks in simple terms that anyone can understand. Unlike other science books that talk about patient diseases, this book caught my attention a dragged me into the stories the author was talking about. I like when books have that extra thing that pulls you in and makes you not want to put the book down.