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The Mind Electric

'Lyrical and spellbinding' New Scientist
By Pria Anand
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 PEN AMERICA LITERARY AWARDS WINNER OF THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD A young woman channelling the voice of the Holy Spirit. A mother whose children have been replaced by changelings. A family cursed by a mysterious inability to sleep. Pria... Read More
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Oliver Sacks meets Elinor Cleghorn's Unwell Women in this neurologist's exploration of brain disorders and how we understand them in today's world

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 PEN AMERICA LITERARY AWARDS

WINNER OF THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD

A young woman channelling the voice of the Holy Spirit. A mother whose children have been replaced by changelings. A family cursed by a mysterious inability to sleep. Pria Anand's patients come to her with myriad peculiar symptoms, but they all have something in common: their diagnosis always hinges on a story. Her task as a neurologist is akin to a detective's, piecing together the clues in a patient's account with the tells of their body in order to settle on a diagnosis.

Moving from the Boston hospital where Pria Anand treats her patients, to her childhood years in India, to Isla Providencia in the Caribbean and to Guinea in West Africa, The Mind Electric demonstrates again and again the compelling paradox at the heart of neurology: that the strangest symptoms experienced by any single individual can show us something universal about being human.

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ISBN: 9780349019123

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 June 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Virago Press Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 240g

Pages: 288

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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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