• NEUROUROLOGY

Our most recent discussion at the Cardiff Neurology Book Club was ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ (figure 1), by Daniel Kahneman, a 2011 best seller that attempts to better understand how we think. This choice was inspired by the 2014 ABN Medallist’s Lecture on ‘How neurologists think: what my errors taught me’, by Martin A Samuels, Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, and we were fortunate that he was also able to join us over a videolink from Boston.

Nobel Prize winner Kahneman has developed a unique take on human thinking that spawned an interesting analysis in the book club. ‘Thinking, fast and slow’ is based on research conducted with his colleague Amos Tversky, and for which Kahneman …