The Mind Electric

What if the elaborate stories our brains tell aren't lies, but survival mechanisms? Neurologist Pria Anand reveals how injured brains confabulate entire realities—and how doctors, cloaked in authority, do the same. From "hysterical" women dismissed for centuries to modern patients performing illness to be believed, she exposes medicine's hidden narratives shaped by bias, exhaustion, and the desperate human need for coherent stories.

In this KitUP, you'll learn:

• Why confabulation reveals the brain's fundamental need for narrative order

• How medical training's brutal conditions compromise the humanity required for true care

• Why pain's invisibility demands faith the "objective" medical gaze often fails to provide