{"product_id":"9780061737169","title":"Head Case: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying to Understand My Brain","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen journalist Dennis Cass was nineteen years old his stepfather, Bill, suffered from a psychotic break. Cass tried to commit him to a mental institution only to watch Bill escape from a cab en route to a Harlem hospital and run raving down the streets of Manhattan. Some fifteen years later, a bout of writer's block turned Cass's thoughts toward the brain. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA complete stranger to science, Cass immersed himself in the world of neuroscience, subjecting himself to brain scans, psychological tests, and scientific conferences, as he attempted to gain a better understanding of ADHD, anxiety, stress, motivation and reward, and consciousness. Then things got a little weird. What began as a more clinical effort to understand himself soon became a personal and emotional journey into the fragile, mysterious workings of the mind and the self. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHead Case\u003c\/em\u003e is a charming, hilarious, and at times harrowing memoir of scientific experimentation. It's a story of science and society, of fathers and sons, and of how the past lives on in the present. Along the way the book asks timeless questions: What do we know about ourselves? What can we know about ourselves? And how much self-knowledge can a single person handle?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47076713005296,"sku":"9780061737169","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061737169_p0.jpg?v=1769887833","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061737169","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}