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Virtual Author Talk

Pria Anand - "The Mind Electric"

2025-07-31 14:00:00 2025-07-31 15:00:00 America/New_York Virtual Author Talk You’re invited to a fascinating conversation streamed live online with neurologist and author Pria Anand to chat about her new book about the strangeness and wonder of our brains. Westlake Porter Public Library - Online

Thursday, July 31
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-07-31 14:00:00 2025-07-31 15:00:00 America/New_York Virtual Author Talk You’re invited to a fascinating conversation streamed live online with neurologist and author Pria Anand to chat about her new book about the strangeness and wonder of our brains. Westlake Porter Public Library - Online

You’re invited to a fascinating conversation streamed live online with neurologist and author Pria Anand to chat about her new book about the strangeness and wonder of our brains.

The Electric Mind: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains tells the stories we tell ourselves about our brains, and the stories our brains tell us.

A girl believes she has been struck blind for stealing a kiss. A mother watches helplessly as each of her children is replaced by a changeling. A woman is haunted each month by the same four chords of a single song. In neurology, illness is inextricably linked with narrative, the clues to unraveling these mysteries hidden in both the details of a patient's story and the tells of their body.

Stories are etched into the very structure of our brains, coded so deeply that the impulse for storytelling survives and even surges after the most devastating injuries. But our brains are also porous—the stories they concoct are shaped by cultural narratives about bodies and illness that permeate the minds of doctors and patients alike. In the history of medicine, some stories are heard, while others—the narratives of women, of Black and brown people, of displaced people, of disempowered people—are too often dismissed.

In The Mind Electric, neurologist Pria Anand reveals—through case study, history, fable, and memoir—all that the medical establishment has overlooked: the complexity and wonder of brains in health and in extremis, and the vast gray area between sanity and insanity, doctor and patient, and illness and wellness, each separated from the next by the thin veneer of a different story.

Moving from the Boston hospital where she treats her patients, to her childhood years in India, to Isla Providencia in the Caribbean and to the Republic of Guinea in West Africa, she demonstrates again and again the compelling paradox at the heart of neurology: that even the most peculiar symptoms can show us something universal about ourselves as humans. Register now to join this intriguing virtual conversation!

About the Author

Pria Anand is a neurologist at the Boston Medical Center and an Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Medicine. She is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Medical School, and she trained in neurology, neuro-infectious diseases, and neuroimmunology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Massachusetts General Hospital.


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AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Books and Authors |

TAGS: | LSC |

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