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Helen Thomson tells the stories of nine of the world’s strangest brains in Unthinkable
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Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey through the World’s Strangest Brains – out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson has spent years travelling the world tracking down incredibly rare brain disorders. In Unthinkable she tells the stories of nine extraordinary people.

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