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The exceptional brain and how it changed the world

by Robert M. Kaplan · 2011

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Dr Robert Kaplan, a forensic-psychiatrist and researcher, set out to explore the various brain diseases or conditions that have made some people very famous (or infamous), and often changed the course of history.

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