Please join us on April 21st in our newly renovated events space. Our Biomeditations Book Talks are casual events inviting dialogue and conversation between authors and readers about new work, both popular and clinical, by University of Pennsylvania health sciences faculty, researchers, and other authors. A New York Times Book Review "editor's pick", Molecule has been favorable compared to the work of Oliver Sacks, offering "sensitive and detailed profiles of patients" and doctors who must defy skepticism and mainstream clinical wisdom to find answers for desperate patients and families. Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. Peskin presents the human stories of people afflicted by rare and obscure nervous conditions, blending narrative medicine, medical history, and medical mystery. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain (Norton, 2022) is an unputdownable journey into the deepest mysteries of our brains. Manning Peskin is a Penn Medicine graduate, assistant professor of clinical neurology, and works at the Penn Memory Center and the Penn Frontotemporal Dementia Center. While the shadow of Alzheimer’s looms over the book, representing an intractable condition that Peskin routinely confronts in her clinical practice, A Molecule Away from Madness is a.
Sara Manning Peskin will talk about her new book, A Molecule Away From Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain. Join us in the Biotech Commons (formerly Biomedical Library) Holman Reading Room where Dr.
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