"Agile, playfuul,
audacious, inventive,
[he] leaps across boundaries,
making
unexpected connections,
juggling a dozen trains of thought at
once"
Oliver
Sacks
This quotation by
Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist who inspired my fascination with
the three-pound organ situated in, and protected by, the cranium,
figuratively describes how the connections, in the order of trillions, made
between our billions of neurons control every aspect of our existence. I was
born ...