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Neuroscience Books

Vigor
by Alaa A. Ahmed, Reza Shadmehr
Review
The Extended Mind
by Annie Murphy Paul
Review
This Is Your Mind on Plants
by Michael Pollan
Review
Forgetting
by Scott A. Small
Review
Projections
by Karl Deisseroth
Review
The Oracle of Night
by Sidarta Ribeiro
Review
The Secret Body
by Daniel M Davis
Review
Brainscapes
by Rebecca Schwarzlose
Review
Coming to Our Senses
by Susan R. Barry
Review
A Sense of Self: Memory, the Brain, and Who We Are
by Veroinca O'Keane
Review
The Sleeping Beauties
by Suzanne O'Sullivan
Review
Music, Math, and Mind
by David Sulzer
Review
A History of the Human Brain
by Bret Stetka
Review
When Brains Dream
by Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold
Review
Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher
by Brandy Schillace
Review
The Problem of Alzheimer’s
by Jason Karlawish
Review
The Rag and Bone Shop
by Veronica O'Keane
Review
An Anatomy of Pain
by Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen
Review
Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way
by Michael Bond
Review
Probable Impossibilities
by Alan Lightman
Review
A Thousand Brains
by Jeff Hawkins
Review
Explaining Humans
by Camilla Pang
Review
Metazoa
by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Review
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
by Lisa Feldman Barrett
Review
The End of Gender
by Debra Soh
Review
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
by David Eagleman
Review
Successful Aging
by Daniel J. Levitin
Review
The Idea of the Brain: A History
by Matthew Cobb
Review
Physical Intelligence
by Scott Grafton
Review
The Angel and the Assassin
by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Review
How We Learn: The New Science of Education and the Brain
by Stanislas Dehaene
Review
The Bilingual Brain
by Albert Costa
Review
How the Brain Lost Its Mind
by Allan Ropper
Review
Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans
by Barbara J. Sahakian and Julia Gottwald
Review
The NeuroGeneration
by Tan Le
Review
Transcendence
by Gaia Vince
Review
The Human Advantage
by Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Review
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
by Bill Bryson
Review
Wayfinding
by M. R. O'Connor
Review
The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity―and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
by Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long
Review
Augmented Mind: AI, Humans and the Superhuman Revolution
by Alex Bates
Review
Scatterbrain: How the Mind’s Mistakes Make Humans Creative, Innovative, and Successful
by Henning Beck
Review
The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
by Joseph LeDoux
Review
Morphing Intelligence from IQ Measurement to Artificial Brains
by Catherine Malabou
Review
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?
by Lawrence Weschler
Review
The Neuroscience of Risky Decision Making
by Valerie F. Reyna, Vivian Zayas
Review
Never Enough: the neuroscience and experience of addiction
by Judith Grisel
Review
Chasing the Sun: The New Science of Sunlight and How it Shapes Our Bodies and Minds
by Linda Geddes
Review
The Gendered Brain
by Gina Rippon
Review
How to Build a Human
by Philip Ball
Review
Everything in its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
by Oliver Sacks
Review
The Nocturnal Brain: Tales of Nightmares and Neuroscience
by Guy Leschziner
Review
The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis
by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson
Review
The Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us
by Adam Rutherford
Review
Sleepyhead: The Neuroscience of a Good Night’s Rest
by Henry Nicholls
Review
Adventures in Memory: The Science and Secrets of Remembering and Forgetting
by Hilde Østby, Ylva Østby
Review
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us about Ourselves
by Eric R. Kandel
Review
Nodding Off: The Science of Sleep from Cradle to Grave
by Alice Gregory
Review
The Brain: Breakthrough in Understanding
by James Lee Adams
Review
Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity
by Theodore M. Porter
Review
Think Tank: Forty Neuroscientists Explore the Biological Roots of Human Experience
by David J. Linden
Review
Quantum Sense and Nonsense
by Jean Bricmont
Review
Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
by Randi Hutter Epstein
Review
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
by Garry Kasparov
Review
The Happy Brain: The Science of Where Happiness Comes From, and Why
by Dean Burnett
Review
Murmur
by Will Eaves
Review
Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World’s Strangest Brains
by Helen Thomson
Review
Brainstorm: Detective Stories From the World of Neurology
by Suzanne O'Sullivan
Review
Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs That Changed Our Minds
by Lauren Slater
Review
Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
by Alex Hutchinson
Review
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Review
The Genius Within: Smart Pills, Brain Hacks and Adventures in Intelligence
by David Adam
Review
Sleepyhead: Narcolepsy, Neuroscience and the Search for a Good Night
by Henry Nicholls
Review
Hormonal: How Hormones Drive Desire, Shape Relationships, and Make Us Wiser
by Martie Haselton
Review
The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are
by Alan Jasanoff
Review
The Pleasure Shock The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor
by Lone Frank
Review
The Psychobiotic Revolution
by Scott C Anderson, John F. Cryan Ph.D, and Ted Dinan M.D. Ph.D
Review
Life through Time and Space
by Wallace Arthur, Stephen Arthur
Review
The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us about What It Means to Be Alive
by Brian Christian
Review
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams
by Matthew Walker
Review
To Siri with Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines
by Judith Newman
Review
Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death
by Adrian Owen
Review
Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
by Dean Buonomano
Review
The Eureka Factor: AHA Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain
by John Kounios and Mark Beeman
Review
Dawn of the Neuron
by Michel Anctil
Review
The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines
by Malcolm Gay
Review
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
by Steve Silberman
Review
The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
by Marc Lewis
Review
Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know that Brilliant Machines Never Will
by Geoff Colvin
Review
The End of Memory: A Natural History of Aging and Alzheimer’s
by Jay Ingram
Review
Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson S Disease
by Jon Palfreman
Review
Neuroscience: A Historical Introduction
by Mitchell Glickstein
Review
Making Space: How the Brain Knows Where Things Are
by Jennifer M. Groh
Review
The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos
by Leonard Mlodinow
Review
The Eureka Factor: AHA Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain
by John Kounios and Mark Beeman
Review
Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind
by David J. Linden
Review
The Glass Cage: Where Automation Is Taking Us
by Nicholas Carr
Review
The Brain’s Way of Healing: Stories of Remarkable Recoveries and Discoveries
by Norman Doidge
Review
Sonic Wonderland: A Scientific Odyssey of Sound
by Trevor Cox
Review
Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience
by Michael S. Gazzaniga
Review
Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains
by Susan Greenfield
Review
The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity
by Norman Doidge
Review
Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat
by John McQuaid
Review
Conquering Concussion: Healing TBI Symptoms with Neurofeedback and Without Drugs
by Mary Lee Esty and C. M. Shifflett
Review
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: A Renowned Neurologist Explains the Mystery and Drama of Brain Disease
by Allan Ropper and Brian Burrell
Review
The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition
by Gregory Hickok
Review
Blue Mind
by Wallace J. Nichols
Review
Handbook of Biologically Active Peptides
by Abba Kastin
Review
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
by Henry Marsh
Review
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
by Sam Kean
Review
Mental Biology: The New Science of How the Brain and Mind Relate
by W. R. Klemm
Review
Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
by Jason Padgett and Maureen Ann Seaberg
Review
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
by Stanislas Dehaene
Review
Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power
by Dan Hurley
Review
Spin Glasses and Complexity
by Daniel L. Stein and Charles M. Newman
Review
Brain Imaging: What it Can (and Cannot) Tell Us About Consciousness
by Robert G. Shulman
Review
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
by Michio Kaku
Review
We Are Our Brains: A Neurobiography of the Brain, from the Womb to Alzheimer’s
by D. F. Swaab
Review
Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
by Alexandra Levitt
Review
Neuroscience of Creativity
by Oshin Vartanian, Adam S. Bristol, and James C. Kaufman
Review

Articles

Nanopore Sensor to Study Protein Aggregation in Neurodegeneration
Roboticists want to give you a third arm
Ultrasound Tornado Rapidly Disrupts Blood Clots
Artificial Neuron Uses Ions Like the Real Thing
Brain boost gets rats adjusted to hearing implants faster
Psilocybin prompts links between neurons in mice
Neuroscientists have created a mood decoder that can measure depression
Your Brain Uses Calculus to Control Fast Movements
The Gut Microbiome Helps Social Skills Develop in the Brain
Pulses to Their Brains and 2 Women’s Binge Eating Went Away
Study urges caution when comparing neural networks to the brain
Optical Interfaces Power Nerve-Operated Prosthetics
Wearable EEG Patch Measures Brain Activity
Flexible Catheter for Brain Access Bioinspired by Wasps
This Implant Turns Brain Waves Into Words
Deep-Brain Stimulator Draws Power From Breath
Human brain cells transplanted into baby rats’ brains grow and form connections
Nanoprinted Microelectrode Array for Brain Computer Interfaces
With This Bionic Nose, COVID Survivors May Smell the Roses Again
Brain recordings shed light on how we process what we see
Monitoring Parkinson’s Patients at Home Could Improve Disease Management
Dissolvable Optical Switches Control Neurons With Light
A memory prosthesis could restore memory in people with damaged brains
Could a brain implant treat binge eating disorder?
Brain Stimulation Improves Memory in Older Adults
Tiny caps can measure activity in lab-grown minibrains
Stretchable Artificial Nerves Help Restore Motion in Mice
Nanobody busts into brain cells to unclump proteins
Imaging Technique Shows Gene Expression in Real Time
Soft ‘NeuroString’ could probe brain and gut
Flexible Microprobe for Neural Interfacing
Photoacoustic System Enables Real-Time Neurovascular Imaging
Eavesdropping on the Brain with 10,000 Electrodes
Fluorescence Sensing Identifies Cancer Indicators in the Brain
Medtronic Wants to Ease Your Pain with Closed-Loop Implantable
Smartphone App to Diagnose Neurological Disorders
Team discovers new way astrocytes and neurons communicate
Tiny Wireless Neurostimulator Delivered Through Blood Vessels
Fractal neuron growth could lead to bionic eyes
Microscope Marks Head-Mounted Advance Toward Treating Neurological Disorders
Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Hands Grasp New Feats
Your brain processes smells like paintings and symphonies
Device Makes Diffuse Ultrasound Waves for Intracranial Applications
Biodegradable implant could help doctors monitor brain chemistry
Flexible Brain-Computer Interface Array for Better Contact
Neural Noise Shows the Uncertainty of Our Memories
Funky Helmet Enhances MRI Brain Scans
Could a Biomaterial Hydrogel One Day Treat Spinal Cord Injuries?
The Quest to Make a Digital Replica of Your Brain
Stimulating spinal cord helps paralysed people to walk again