Chapter 9 is about human memory and various nuances and studies revolving around human memory. It looks into research into enzymes in the brain, various memory centers around the brain. The most interesting part of the study is a man named Henry. He has his hippocampus literally sucked out of his head. Afterwards he cannot develop new memories. He remembers memories from before the surgery though. Henry is really interesting, otherwise the chapter was pretty boring.
Chapter 10: Chipped
Chapter 10 is a chapter about the history of psycho surgery and psycho pharmacological drugs. The chapters main subject is a Dr. Mortiz, a Portuguese scientist who basically invented psycho surgery by going around the world and cutting people up. There's ethical stipulations that come from his actions are mentioned but not gone into detail. It then later goes up to modern history and the current process of psycho medical procedures. This chapter is real cool, the stories and processes described are really interesting. I'm surprised that the author didn't attempt brain surgery on herself at the end of this chapter
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