Neuroscience

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system.

See also Science.
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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Dopamine Detox : A Short Guide to Remove Distractions and Train Your Brain to Do Hard Things (Productivity Series Book 1)
El peligro de estar cuerda
Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
The Brain at Rest: How the Art and Science of Doing Nothing Can Improve Your Life
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness
Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond
Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian's Guide to Autism
The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
The Brain: The Story of You
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
How the Mind Works
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
Principles of Neural Science
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell by Aldous HuxleyFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonTrainspotting by Irvine WelshUnderstanding Ketamine by D. LamarNeuroplasticity by Moheb Costandi
On Psychedelics
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The Biology of Homosexuality by Jacques BalthazartGay, Straight, and the Reason Why by Simon LeVayThe Evolution of Human Sexuality by Donald SymonsThe Ape that Understood the Universe by Steve Stewart-WilliamsDifferent by Frans de Waal
Scinence on homosexuality
5 books — 1 voter

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam KeanThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum
Modern Science Nonfiction
452 books — 306 voters
Technological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiAnti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiAnxiety by Danny WinterAnatomy of an Epidemic by Robert  Whitaker
Over-pathologization of Human Beings
27 books — 39 voters


Rick     Hanson
[I]f you can be with the pleasant without chasing after it, with the unpleasant without resisting it, and with the neutral without ignoring it - [...] that is an incredible [...] freedom.
Rick Hanson, Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

Our metaphors for the operation of the brain are frequently drawn from the production line. We think of the brain as a glorified sausage machine, taking in information from the senses, processing it and regurgitating it in a different form, as thoughts or actions. The digital computer reinforces this idea because it is quite explicitly a machine that does to information what a sausage machine does to pork. Indeed, the brain was the original inspiration and metaphor for the development of the dig ...more
Steve Grand, Creation: Life and How to Make It

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