5/31/2023 0 Comments The dueling neurosurgeons![]() ![]() The unfortunate monarch was examined by Ambroise Paré and Andreas Vesalius, two of the greatest medical minds of the time. The book’s title is drawn from the unhappy story of King Henri II of France who sustained an eventually fatal brain injury due to an errant lance tip at a jousting tournament in 1559. If pondering such neurologic minutiae stimulates your pleasure centers, The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, the latest by bestselling science writer Sam Kean is sure to be right up your axon. That’s why it’s so hard to fake an honest smile of happiness and so easy to detect a phony one. A genuine smile calls on the coordination of particular brain centers, while smiles that are generated by other emotions don’t use the same neurologic pathways, resulting in subtle differences. But no matter why someone is smiling, people are particularly good at deciphering the truth behind a smile. A smile can reveal so many things: pure joy, utter malevolence or complete indifference. ![]()
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