Neurology


The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Hallucinations
An Anthropologist on Mars
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
The Mind's Eye
Awakenings
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Seeing Voices
This Is Your Brain on Music
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
The Power of Habit by Charles DuhiggThe Brain that Changes Itself by Norman DoidgeBuddha's Brain by Rick     HansonThe Mind & the Brain by Jeffrey M. SchwartzNineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness by Patrick  House
Neuroplasticity
71 books — 139 voters

A Place to Stand by Frank DeMarcoIf I Stay by Gayle FormanCrazy For Alice by Alex DunnBetween Here and Forever by Elizabeth ScottMadrid Metro by Abigail Kloss-Aycardi
Disorders of Consciousness
31 books — 36 voters
Idiot Brain by Dean BurnettHow the Mind Works by Steven PinkerQuiet by Susan CainThe Brain by David EaglemanThe Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
Explaining the Mind
152 books — 61 voters

Abhijit Naskar
The Final Enigma (Sonnet 2002) Consciousness contains the cosmos, cosmos contains consciousness, all rooted in specks of jelly, firing in frenzy inside our head. When neurons fire, we see light, lack of oxygen conjures a tunnel. Nearing death, hallucinogens kick in, thus we experience kingdoms mythical. Neurons forge the fabric of reality, within neurons our paradise is born. Neurons concoct our fabled purgatory, thus our strong beliefs rule perception. Neurons are the birthplace of order, w ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

The spirits of the brain are directly connected to the testicles. This is why men who weary their imagination in books are less suitable for procreative functions...
Louis de la Forge

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