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A health care provider with a exceptional - seemingly superhuman - neurological characteristic takes us on a compelling tour deep into the mind in this mixture of memoir and clinical exploration that combines the compassionate intelligence of Oliver Sacks and the non-public revelations of Jill Bolte Taylor's My Heart stroke of Insight. Dr. Joel Salinas is a Harvard-trained researcher and neurologist with amazing gifts offering him unique usage of his patients and enable him to see life within an amazing way. He has mirror-touch synesthesia, a neurological characteristic that allows him to feel others' emotions and physical sensations. Vunerable to the pain and discomfort of his patients - the majority of whom have problems with strokes, spinal-cord accidental injuries, multiple sclerosis, and a bunch of other unpleasant disorders and extreme accidental injuries - Salinas uses his heightened empathic ability - what he calls "compulsory mindfulness" - to help understand and better treat their conditions. Using his own experience as a neurologist and synesthete as a narrative through lines, Salinas also shares the remarkable tales of equally remarkable subjects who likewise live in a heightened state of consciousness, whether because of a congenital condition, following a seemingly debilitating stroke, or amid an ecstatic seizure. Written with cleverness and compassion, and anchored by the latest advancements in neurology, psychology, and psychiatry, Reflection Touch is an enthralling investigation into the power of the mind - one that proves that your brain, in wondrous and mystical fashion, continues to promise fascinating and inexhaustible ways to believe, to see, also to be.
