BRAIN DETECTIVE: Medical Mysteries, Brain Science, and 750 Questions Every Future Doctor Should Know (Neuromuscular Expert Series)

What if the best way to learn neuroscience isn’t to memorize the brain—but to investigate it?

A man remembers his childhood but cannot remember meeting you five minutes ago.

A patient suddenly loses movement on one side of the body.

A woman’s eyelids begin to fall every evening.

Someone feels a hand that is no longer there.

A student faints without warning.

Each mystery begins with the same question a neurologist asks:

Where is the problem—and what does it reveal about how the nervous system works?

In BRAIN DETECTIVE, neurologist Nivedita U. Jerath, MD, MS turns neuroscience into a series of medical mysteries designed for premed students, neuroscience students, future physicians, and anyone fascinated by the brain.

Instead of treating neuroscience as an endless collection of structures and vocabulary words, this book teaches you to reason from symptoms to anatomy, from anatomy to physiology, and from physiology to disease.

Along the way, you’ll explore memory and the hippocampus, neurons and action potentials, neurotransmitters and synapses, sensation and pain, vision and hearing, movement and the cerebellum, the autonomic nervous system, sleep and emotion, stroke localization, seizures, myelin, neuroimmunology, genetics, emerging neurological treatments, and some of the patients and discoveries that changed neuroscience.

Clinical mysteries are paired with clear explanations, memory tools, common traps, and questions that force you to retrieve and apply what you’ve learned—not simply reread it.

And throughout the book, 750 neuroscience questions help turn knowledge into understanding.

BRAIN DETECTIVE is for the student who doesn’t just want to know that the hippocampus matters for memory.

It’s for the student who wants to understand why.

And eventually, to look at a patient’s symptoms and begin asking the question at the heart of clinical neuroscience:

What is the nervous system trying to tell me?