★ From a neuroscience perspective, it takes readers on a journey to understand how the brain processes emotions such as fear and sadness, unlock the secrets of memory and attention, explain the extreme and violent behavior of brain injury, and gain a deeper understanding of our brains.
★ In this book, the neuropsychologist Saul Martinez Horta tells the story of his experiences treating people with cognitive decline in the brain and how it has helped him better understand life and the profession of neuropsychologist.
★ English sample translation available!

It is not easy, nor is it always possible, to understand what results from a broken brain. Often no one has noticed that behind the absent-mindedness, the strange gestures, the changes in character, the difficulty in finding the word you are looking for, the visions or the discouragement, in short, behind that person whom we no longer recognize, there is a brain that one day began to break.

And when it does, nothing is ever the same again. In those who suffer it, what we were, what we are and what we could have been is broken. In those who live it on the other side, the longings, the desires, the daily life... life, a whole life next to someone who is no longer who he or she was.

Living with these patients and learning from them is the most effective tool at our disposal to approach a minimum understanding of the brain, perhaps "the greatest architectural work imaginable created by nature".