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Do you have a plan for the zombie apocalypse? Maybe you should start by learning a little bit about the science of the zombie brain. There's a new novel out, The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks from the Apocalypse
Zombies might be fictional, but the novel was written by a real doctor, Steven Schlozman, a child psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School. According to him, zombie stories are a perfect for us to look at the spread of pandemics and effects of contagious disease.
The Zombie Autopsies (which I haven't read yet but will be adding to my list post-haste) is written as the journal of a neuroscientist studying zombies while infected by "ataxic neurodegenerative satiety deficiency syndrome" ("zombie disease") himself. Not only that, 2/3 of the world has already been infected, and it's up to him to get to the disease before it gets to him.
