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Helen Thomson is a writer and consultant with New Scientist. She has also written for the Guardian, Daily Mail, BBC Future and Psychologies and has won various awards for her journalism.

Her research has taken her from coffee with five psychopathic mass murderers in Broadmoor to poking around in the Large Hadron Collider.

She has exclusively revealed plans for the world's first head transplant, learned how to rule at roulette, had her fat zapped, scrubbed up for a cutting-edge prostate cancer operation and watched a paralysed man walk for the first time using a mind-controlled exoskeleton.

But her greatest fascination remains writing about the brain, especially those that don't look like everyone else's.

Helen has a BSc in Neuroscience and an ...more

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“Our inability to understand our own minds is the price we pay for the ability to question it in the first place.”
― Helen Thomson, Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own
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“Back in that first lesson with Clive, I was told by my professor that 'If the brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.”
― Helen Thomson, Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own
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“Shereshevsky’s imagination was so vivid that in one experiment, he was able to raise the temperature of one hand while lowering the temperature of the other, merely by imagining one on a stove and one on a block of ice.”
― Helen Thomson, Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains
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