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Thanks EL for your great comment!

Sara: The following reading could make your knowledge of experimental brain surgery the master of your field.

The Castle of the Blue Birds, subtitled "A Brain Surgeon Trys Destiny," is a mixture of thriller and doctor novel by Heinz G. Konsalik from 1968.

"A brain surgeon tries fate. The family of the successful chemist Gerd Sassner was a family like any other. A happy family - until Sassner one day brings an old shoe home from fishing and introduces him as his old war comrade. Luise Sassner, who loves her husband above all else, is desperate. The family doctor proposes a hospital treatment - gentle, elegant, just no "slapper". So Gerd Sassner comes to Hohenschwandt. There, the head physician, the world famous brain surgeon Professor Dorian, obsessed with a daring idea: He wants to prove that in previously incurable cases of mental illness, certain centers of the brain operatively coupled differently, ganglia switch different, so the essence and thinking of completely new people can create. "

- Blurb of the paperback edition [1]