Renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander argued against near-death experiences until a rare illness forced him into a coma for seven days. When he came to, Alexander recounted his journey into new realms of existence, where he met an angelic being not of this world.

The wife of pioneering surgeon and presidential candidate Ben Carson offers an intimate portrait of her husband as a family man, Christian, and patriot that shares insights into his beliefs about how all Americans are capable of remarkable achievements.

The author relates how a chance encounter in a magic shop with a woman who taught him exercises to ease his sufferings and manifest his greatest desires gave him a glimpse of the relationship between the brain and the heart, and drove him to explore the neuroscience of compassion and altruism.

"Lobotomy was hailed by the New York Times as 'surgery of the soul', a groundbreaking medical procedure that promised hope to the most distressed mentally ill patients and their families. But what began as an operation of last resort was soon being performed at some fifty state asylums, often with devastating results. Little more than a decade after his rise to fame, Walter Freeman, the neurologist who championed the procedure, was decried as a moral...

"Tumors, injuries, natural malformations -- there is almost no such thing as a non-emergency brain surgery when it comes to kids. For a pediatric neurosurgeon working in the medical minefield of the brain -- in which every millimeter in every direction governs something that makes us essentially human -- every day presents the challenge, the opportunity, to give a new lease on life to a child for whom nothing is yet determined and all possibilities...