How to Use a Fork: Stories of Mending the Broken Brain

A neurologist illuminates the brain’s capacity to heal after injury in extraordinary tales of human recovery.

Twenty years ago, a stroke or other brain injury was considered a life sentence; doctors in training were taught that a damaged brain never mends. Neuroscience has since revealed how, far from falling silent, the injured brain actively forges new networks to regain lost capabilities. Neurologist and neuroscientist Orlando Swayne has spent decades immersed in this field and has witnes...