Thomas Hodgkinson
No More Than Meat
Into The Silent Land: Travels In Neuropsychology
By Paul Broks
Atlantic Books 246pp £14.99
PAUL BROKS TAKES his book's title from a well-known poem by Christina Rossetti, a staple of memorial services:
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land.. .
There 'the silent land' is death; here the author uses the phrase to refer to the human brain. As a neuropsychologist, he is concerned with the workings of the brain and how physical irregularities in it can affect our personalities and emotional behaviour. Yet the association with the Rossetti poem remains
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