Dear Valiant Readers, Today we became a cause. Ten thousand of you have decided, since last year, that it’s worth your while to visit Brain in a Jar. I offer my thanks to the beautiful and brilliant Hayley for inspiring me to start the blog. She is very busy these days taking care of her…
Category: Alzheimer’s
Stories, not Statistics
Dear Readers, Reluctantly, I retrieved the Sunday New York Times from the front porch this morning. Since Beau died I haven’t much felt like watching television, reading books or the newspapers. I mostly just like to sit in silence and look out my front window—a bit like an Alzheimer’s disease patient myself. I let my…
Bodyless Horseman of the Apocalypse
Dear Dreamy Readers, Growing up with a neurologist can really mess with your head. Especially if he’s got a brain in a jar at work, and spinal columns hanging from IV stands at home. Unphased by it all, I used to hang out in his den and read everything from the Merck Manual to Pediatric…
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