His TED Talk on the emotional heart was one of the ten most-watched TED Talks of 2019. His essays have also been published in The Wall Street Journal, Time, and Slate. Jauhar has appeared frequently on National Public Radio, CNN, and MSNBC to discuss issues related to medicine. It delves into what happens in the brain as we age and our memory falters, how memory gives meaning to our lives, even as it changes with time, how dementia complicates our understanding of what it means to have a self - and what all this means for patients, their families, and society at large.ĭr. At the same time, the book explores everything from the history of ancient Greece to the most cutting-edge neurological―and bioethical―research. Though the conflicts are personal, they are also in many ways universal-conversations and conflicts that every family facing the mental erosion of an elder has. The book relates the complications that arise when family members must become caregivers, as well as the bonds of siblings-and the testing of those bonds. In the book, Jauhar sets his father’s descent into Alzheimer’s alongside his own journey toward understanding his father’s disease My Father’s Brain (2023) is a memoir of his relationship with his father as he succumbed to dementia, but it is also about the history and science of brain degeneration. Heart: A History was named a best book of 2018 by the Mail on Sunday, Science Friday, Zocalo Public Square, and the Los Angeles Public Library, and was the PBS NewsHour/New York Times book club pick for January 2019 it was also a finalist for the Wellcome Book Prize. His second book, Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician, was a New York Times bestseller and was named a New York Post Best Book of 2014. His first book, Intern: A Doctor's Initiation, was a national bestseller and was optioned by NBC for a dramatic television series. In addition to his journalism, has written three bestselling books, all published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. He has been writing regularly about medicine for the Times since 1998. Berkeley before going on to study medicine at Washington University in St Louis. A practicing cardiologist, he earned a Ph.D.
Sandeep Jauhar became a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times in March 2015.
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