Masud Husian, a neuroscience professor at Oxford university, whose emotionally powerful book delves deeply into the nature of individual human identity and how this relates to our belonging to a supportive social group. Husain examines, the way injury and disease transformed the lives of seven patients  with very different experiences. The thread uniting them is that all were “confronted by the very real possibility of social exclusion, because their behaviour had changed so significantly. As a consequence of the cognitive effects of their brain disorder, they were no longer considered acceptable within their social networks” he writes. The resulting isolation exacerbated … Continue reading Mindful nature of human identity