TY - JOUR T1 - <em>A portrait of the brain by Adam Zeman</em> JF - Practical Neurology JO - Pract Neurol DO - 10.1136/practneurol-2017-001746 SP - practneurol-2017-001746 AU - Ania Crawshaw AU - Katharine Harding Y1 - 2017/08/04 UR - http://pn.bmj.com/content/early/2017/08/04/practneurol-2017-001746.abstract N2 - Inviting the author to Book Club can be a high-risk strategy. There is always the possibility that no one will have liked it, and an awkward hour will ensue, littered with disingenuous attempts to spin a positive angle. There was no danger of that when Adam Zeman, Professor of Cognitive and Behavioural Neurology at Peninsula Medical School, joined us to discuss about his second book: ‘A portrait of the brain’.1It is a beautiful account of the brain, starting at the atomic level, then gradually zooming out chapter by chapter, ending at the level of the soul. In a style reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, Zeman uses neurological case histories to illustrate our understanding of each layer. Several readers independently drew a comparison between the two authors, and so we were interested to hear that Zeman … ER -