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Our Brains, Our Selves

by Masud Husain

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Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 · December 8, 2025

Histories, emotions and identity

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A neurologist explores the science of human identity through the stories of seven patients, examining how losing a single cognitive ability — words, empathy, or memory — can fundamentally shift who we are, winner of the Royal Society's 2025 Trivedi Science Book Prize.

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