Doctor P: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

The case of Dr. P went down in history as one of the most bizarre cases in neuroscience in the world. It was a perfect example of the strange ways the brain can occasionally stop functioning correctly. You probably take it for granted that you can look around and recognize a chair as a chair, or a door as a door. Indeed, you accept these as simple and natural processes. However, you probably don’t realize the complex network of connections in your brain that are involved in these apparently simple processes. As a matter of fact, they’re sophisticated brain functions….