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A thrilling story of scientific detective work and medical potential that illuminates the newly understood role of microglia - an elusive type of brain cell that is vitally relevant to our everyday lives.
"The rarest of books: a combination of page-turning discovery and remarkably readable science journalism." (Mark Hyman, MD, number one New York Times best-selling author of Food: What the Heck Should I Eat?)
Named one of the best books of the year by Wired
Until recently, microglia were thought to be helpful but rather boring: housekeeper cells in the brain. But a recent groundbreaking discovery has revealed that they connect our physical and mental health in surprising ways. When triggered - and anything that stirs up the immune system in the body can activate microglia, including chronic stressors, trauma, and viral infections - they can contribute to memory problems, anxiety, depression, and Alzheimer’s. Under the right circumstances, however, microglia can be coaxed back into being angelic healers, able to make brain repairs in ways that help alleviate symptoms and hold the promise to one day prevent disease.
With the compassion born of her own experience, award-winning journalist Donna Jackson Nakazawa illuminates this newly understood science, following practitioners and patients on the front lines of treatments that help to “reboot” microglia. In at least one case, she witnesses a stunning recovery - and in others, significant relief from pressing symptoms, offering new hope to the tens of millions who suffer from mental, cognitive, and physical health issues.
Hailed as a “riveting”, “stunning”, and “visionary”, The Angel and the Assassin offers us a radically reconceived picture of human health and promises to change everything we thought we knew about how to heal ourselves.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"A fascinating deep dive into the unsung heroes (and villains) inside our skulls.... Donna Jackson Nakazawa has a journalist’s eye for story, a scholar’s understanding of the research, and a patient’s appreciation for how high the stakes truly are." (Susannah Cahalan, New York Times best-selling author of Brain on Fire)
“In a stunning show of precision and heart, Jackson Nakazawa offers a captivating, page-turning story of scientific discoveries that overturn centuries of medical dogma and fundamentally reshape psychiatry, medicine, and the treatment of mental and physical illnesses. The Angel and the Assassin offers extraordinary promise and heralds hope in a time of skyrocketing rates of ‘microglial’ diseases - including depression, anxiety, Alzheimer’s, and addiction. It is paradigm-shifting reading for us all!” (Christina Bethell, PhD, MPH, director of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative and professor at Johns Hopkins University)
“I can think of no topic more fascinating or exciting than microglia, the long-misunderstood brain cells whose power over brain health may hold the promise of cure for so many. The Angel and the Assassin is riveting, engaging, and visionary.” (Terry Wahls, MD, author of The Wahls Protocol)
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Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us and our ancestors in deep time. This pause-resisting survey of the whole of terrestrial evolution sheds new light on how nervous systems evolved in animals, how the brain developed, and what it means to be human. In The Deep History of Ourselves, LeDoux argues that the key to understanding human behavior lies in viewing evolution through the prism of the first living organisms.
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Oversold
- De Michael en 03-04-20
De: Joseph LeDoux
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Unreliable Narrator
- Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome
- De: Aparna Nancherla
- Narrado por: Aparna Nancherla
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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Aparna Nancherla is a superstar comedian on the rise—a darling of Netflix and Comedy Central’s comedy special lineups, a headliner at comedy shows and music festivals, a frequenter of late night television and the subject of numerous profiles. She’s also a successful actor who has written a barrage of thoughtful essays published by the likes of the New York Times. If you ask her, though, she’s a total fraud. She’d hate to admit it, but no one does impostor syndrome quite like Aparna Nancherla.
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So much valuable insight, please read
- De patski en 10-07-23
De: Aparna Nancherla
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Probable Impossibilities
- Musings on Beginnings and Endings
- De: Alan Lightman
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman explores these questions and more - from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang.
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Mumbler
- De Phil Gaskill en 08-07-22
De: Alan Lightman
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Conversations
- De: Steve Reich
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill, Johnny Heller, Derek Perkins, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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Steve Reich is a living legend in the world of contemporary classical music. As a leader of the minimalist movement in the 1960s, his works have become central to the musical landscape worldwide, influencing generations of younger musicians, choreographers and visual artists. He has explored non-Western music and American vernacular music from jazz to rock, as well as groundbreaking music and video pieces. He toured the world with his own ensemble and his compositions are performed internationally by major orchestras and ensembles.
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Stunningly thoughtful!
- De Jon Wagner en 08-22-24
De: Steve Reich
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Biased
- Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
- De: Jennifer L. Eberhardt PhD
- Narrado por: Jennifer L. Eberhardt PhD
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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How do we talk about bias? How do we address racial disparities and inequities? What role do our institutions play in creating, maintaining, and magnifying those inequities? What role do we play? With a perspective that is at once scientific, investigative, and informed by personal experience, Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt offers us the language and courage we need to face one of the biggest and most troubling issues of our time. She exposes racial bias at all levels of society - in our neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and criminal justice system.
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- De Pavan Ongole en 04-04-19
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Some Assembly Required
- Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- De: Neil Shubin
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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Over billions of years, ancient fish evolved to walk on land, reptiles transformed into birds that fly, and apelike primates evolved into humans that walk on two legs, talk, and write. For more than a century, paleontologists have traveled the globe to find fossils that show how such changes have happened.
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Interesting but thin. ANNOYING narration
- De MSB en 04-10-20
De: Neil Shubin
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The Deep History of Ourselves
- The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
- De: Joseph LeDoux
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us and our ancestors in deep time. This pause-resisting survey of the whole of terrestrial evolution sheds new light on how nervous systems evolved in animals, how the brain developed, and what it means to be human. In The Deep History of Ourselves, LeDoux argues that the key to understanding human behavior lies in viewing evolution through the prism of the first living organisms.
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Oversold
- De Michael en 03-04-20
De: Joseph LeDoux
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Unreliable Narrator
- Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome
- De: Aparna Nancherla
- Narrado por: Aparna Nancherla
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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Aparna Nancherla is a superstar comedian on the rise—a darling of Netflix and Comedy Central’s comedy special lineups, a headliner at comedy shows and music festivals, a frequenter of late night television and the subject of numerous profiles. She’s also a successful actor who has written a barrage of thoughtful essays published by the likes of the New York Times. If you ask her, though, she’s a total fraud. She’d hate to admit it, but no one does impostor syndrome quite like Aparna Nancherla.
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So much valuable insight, please read
- De patski en 10-07-23
De: Aparna Nancherla
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Probable Impossibilities
- Musings on Beginnings and Endings
- De: Alan Lightman
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman explores these questions and more - from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang.
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Mumbler
- De Phil Gaskill en 08-07-22
De: Alan Lightman
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Conversations
- De: Steve Reich
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill, Johnny Heller, Derek Perkins, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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Steve Reich is a living legend in the world of contemporary classical music. As a leader of the minimalist movement in the 1960s, his works have become central to the musical landscape worldwide, influencing generations of younger musicians, choreographers and visual artists. He has explored non-Western music and American vernacular music from jazz to rock, as well as groundbreaking music and video pieces. He toured the world with his own ensemble and his compositions are performed internationally by major orchestras and ensembles.
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- De Jon Wagner en 08-22-24
De: Steve Reich
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Water
- A Biography
- De: Giulio Boccaletti
- Narrado por: Giulio Boccaletti
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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Spanning millennia and continents, here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization. Giulio Boccaletti - honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford - shrewdly combines environmental and social history, beginning with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates Rivers.
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Understand Built-Environment Governance~Know Water
- De Tom en 05-11-22
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Hooked
- Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
- De: Michael Moss
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 9 h
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Everyone knows how hard it can be to maintain a healthy diet. But what if some of the decisions we make about what to eat are beyond our control? Is it possible that food is addictive, like drugs or alcohol? And to what extent does the food industry know, or care, about these vulnerabilities? In Hooked, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss sets out to answer these questions - and to find the true peril in our food.
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Empowering Read
- De Lorena Kazmierski en 04-04-21
De: Michael Moss
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Unwell Women
- Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
- De: Elinor Cleghorn
- Narrado por: Hanako Footman
- Duración: 14 h y 8 m
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Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman 10 years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a possible pregnancy. As Elinor learned to live with her unpredictable disease, she turned to history for answers, and found an enraging legacy of suffering, mystification, and misdiagnosis. In Unwell Women, Elinor Cleghorn traces the almost unbelievable history of how medicine has failed women by treating their bodies as alien and other, often to perilous effect.
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Profound Read; A Sincere Stepping Stone to Understanding My Own Why
- De Nicole en 07-23-21
De: Elinor Cleghorn
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This America of Ours
- Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild
- De: Nate Schweber
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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In late-1940s America, few writers commanded attention like Bernard DeVoto. Alongside his brilliant wife and editor, Avis, DeVoto was a firebrand of American liberty, free speech, and perhaps our greatest national treasure: public lands. But when a corrupt band of lawmakers, led by Senator Pat McCarran, sought to quietly cede millions of acres of national parks and other western lands to logging, mining, and private industry, the DeVotos entered the fight of their lives.
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Fascinating history of a great conservationist
- De Sue en 10-18-22
De: Nate Schweber
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Sold Out
- How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation, and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy
- De: James Rickards
- Narrado por: James Rickards
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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Today, your favorite products are missing from store shelves, caught in supply chain limbo somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. But what does this supply chain disruption look like six months, or even three years, from now? While we hope that post-pandemic recovery will absolve these issues, the reality is that digital currency, meme stonks, and social media can’t solve the age-old problem of producing and moving physical goods across oceans and continents. Jim Rickards argues that consumer frustration is only the tip of a large, menacing iceberg that threatens global economic collapse.
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Hard to like this. Book is really Dull.
- De horoscopy en 12-06-22
De: James Rickards
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All That Is Wicked
- A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind
- De: Kate Winkler Dawson
- Narrado por: Kate Winkler Dawson
- Duración: 9 h
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Edward Rulloff was a brilliant yet utterly amoral murderer—some have called him a “Victorian-era Hannibal Lecter”—whose crimes spanned decades and whose victims were chosen out of revenge, out of envy, and sometimes out of necessity.
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PLEASE STOP The Politicizing of Everything
- De Anonymous en 10-15-22
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Prediction Machines
- The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
- De: Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb
- Narrado por: LJ Ganser
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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Artificial intelligence does the seemingly impossible - driving cars, trading stocks, and teaching children. But facing the sea change that AI will bring can be paralyzing. How should companies set strategies, governments design policies, and people plan their lives for a world so different from what we know? In Prediction Machines, three eminent economists recast the rise of AI as a drop in the cost of prediction. With this single, masterful stroke, they lift the curtain on the AI-is-magic hype and show how basic tools from economics provide clarity about the AI revolution and a basis for action by CEOs, managers, policy makers, investors, and entrepreneurs.
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Not sure what I was expecting, but underwhelmed
- De William J Brown en 09-27-18
De: Ajay Agrawal, y otros
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The Year of the Puppy
- How Dogs Become Themselves
- De: Alexandra Horowitz
- Narrado por: Alexandra Horowitz
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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Few of us meet our dogs at Day One. The dog who will eventually become an integral part of our family, our constant companion, and our best friend is born without us into a family of her own. A puppy's critical early development into the dog we come to know is usually missed entirely. Dog researcher Alexandra Horowitz aimed to change that with her family's new pup, Quiddity (Quid). In this scientific memoir she charts Quid's growth from wee grub to boisterous sprite, from her birth to her first birthday.
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- De Australian Shepherds Rock en 10-06-23
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Naked in the Rideshare
- Stories of Gross Miscalculations
- De: Rebecca Shaw, Ben Kronengold
- Narrado por: Rebecca Shaw, Ben Kronengold, Mark Sanderlin, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
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From Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold, the youngest comedy writers ever for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and masterminds behind the viral 2018 Yale graduation speech, comes a hilarious collection of short stories taking on coming-of-age, memes, sex, politics, relationships, and Goop, with satire, self-deprecation, and utter irreverence.
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I thought it was supposed to be funny, kind of weak, overall.
- De Howard_a en 08-05-24
De: Rebecca Shaw, y otros
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American Cheese
- De: Joe Berkowitz
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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Joe Berkowitz loves cheese. Or at least he thought he did. After stumbling upon an artisanal tasting at an upscale cheese shop one Valentine’s Day, he realized he’d hardly even scratched the surface. These cheeses were like nothing he had ever tasted - a visceral drug-punch that reverberated deliciousness - and they were from America. He felt like he was being let in a great cosmic secret, and instantly he was in love.
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Interesting and a Little Disappointing
- De Joe F. en 03-26-23
De: Joe Berkowitz
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Democracy in One Book or Less
- How It Works, Why It Doesn’t, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think
- De: David Litt
- Narrado por: David Litt
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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Bill Bryson meets Thomas Frank in this deeply insightful, unexpectedly hilarious story of how politicians hijacked American democracy and how we can take it back.
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Thanks Litt.
- De Andy en 10-06-20
De: David Litt
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Cloudmoney
- Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets
- De: Brett Scott
- Narrado por: Coleman Pedigo
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
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In Cloudmoney, Brett Scott tells an urgent and revelatory story about how the fusion of Big Finance and Big Tech requires “cloudmoney”—digital money underpinned by the banking sector—to replace physical cash. He dives beneath the surface of the global financial system to uncover a long-established lobbying infrastructure: an alliance of partners waging a covert war on cash.
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Suspicions and grievances instead of arguments
- De Holger en 03-09-23
De: Brett Scott
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- Janet
- 10-15-23
Highly recommended!
What a genius book, using every day language plus medical language to bring the excitement and thrills to real science. Recommended for everyone. People who know and love anyone who’s had depression or neurologic symptoms may especially enjoy this. This might even change your life for the better while being entertained. Medical people need to be tolerant of the non-standard pronunciation by the narrator. Narrator is very good and the narration lens itself to comfortable listening at a faster playback.
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- Nicole Artz
- 01-20-23
Fantastic
Such a fascinating book! The author weaves together the latest science showing how microglia affect our brains with real life stories of people struggling with mental health issues and the treatments that helped them.
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- Kay
- 08-11-20
THE BEST most life changing book I have ever read!!
The narrator is superb. The writing is superb. The content is of such importance I feel like buying a book for everyone I know and asking them to read it!
The book provides data that offers so much hope for so many medical issues, especially mental health (the costs of which are 200+billion yearly. I believe I am quoting the author correctly) and a new way to understand why people suffer as they do. There are solutions on the horizon that will advance treatment in ways that will make current treatments seem so limited in outcomes. There is not anyone who will come away without new empathy and understanding of others after reading this book.
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- Glenda
- 05-04-21
Engaging and hopeful
I found the information presented in an engaging and thoughtful manner allowing anyone to digest and stay focused as the information and processes were presented. I’ve already downloaded her all of Ms. Nakazawa’s works!
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- K. Fliller
- 07-26-20
Fascinating, Intriguing, Grateful
I am incredibly grateful to Donna Jackson Nakazawa for writing this book. I also read Childhood Disrupted. Both books are beyond stellar. These books read like stories. I can feel her passion for her subject matter. And both books apply to my life. She truly cares about traumatic childhoods and brains that seem to be beyond repair. For people who have suffered greatly and feel like there’s no hope. If I could give these books 1000 stars I would. It truly brought understanding to my complicated world. Thank you so much for your beautiful writing and your dedication to mental health!
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- Donzxsaz
- 02-24-22
An amazingly worthwhile read
A very well written and very interesting read. I’ve learned so much about so much. It is helping me see myself and so many other people that I know in a new light. I can’t recommend it enough. It is totally worth every enjoyable minute.
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- Ollie Incomefree
- 11-03-22
Absolutely fascinating
Thoroughly engrossing book on microglial cells-immunity cells that are neurons. Implications for depression, Dementia, Parkinson’s and more. Solution oriented, with discussions on the latest research and newest techniques.
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- Anna Nelson
- 08-19-20
Informative and Well Explained
This book contains a wealth of information about a new frontier in neuroscience. The case studies really supported the meatier parts of the text.
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- Dominic Acri
- 01-23-20
A Magnus Opus for Microglia
As a neuroscientist, I found this book a refreshing and accurate narrative of the current state of microglial research. Nakazawa brings popular science into the 21st Century of immunology and the brain, exploring cutting-edge research and highlighting some of the most influential scientists in the field. Weaving together narrative and science for the everyday listener, Nakazawa creates a beautiful tapestry befitting of this once understudied cell type.
Unfortunately, the performance of this audiobook was incredibly disappointing. The pronunciation of “microglia” throughout the book is frustrating and very distracting. Of the dozens of microglia researchers I work with, not a single one pronounces it this way. Other key words that are integral to the story of this book such as “tau” are mispronounced as well and make certain chapters hard to follow. That being said, this may not be a huge deal to those outside of the neuro-immune/AD fields. I expect better from Random House Audio, now I’ll think twice before buying science audiobooks from them in the future.
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- 03-02-20
Fascinating and interesting
Cons:
The first chapter is a little dull
There's a few too many people interest stories
The reader mispronounced many things
Pros:
Fantastic science
Short but engaging
Interesting treatment exploration
Medical, but not too complex
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