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Into the Magic Shop
- 276 pages · about 5 hours
- First published 2016
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1 About this book
The author relates how a chance encounter in a magic shop with a woman who taught him exercises to ease his sufferings and manifest his greatest desires gave him a glimpse of the relationship between the brain and the heart, and drove him to explore the neuroscience of compassion and altruism.
- Compassion
- Mind and body
- Biography
- Surgeons, biography
- Neurosurgeons
- Altruism
- Neurosurgery
- Caring
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