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Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything

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After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond

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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons by Sam Kean

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Unveiling Autism: Causes, Science, and Understanding

1 book — 2 voters

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

About the most complicated thing in the universe

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Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb Tsipursky

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Viruses, the Brain, and Human Civilization

49 books — 40 voters

Technological Slavery by Theodore John Kaczynski

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Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kaczynski

Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker

Over-pathologization of Human Beings

25 books — 39 voters

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge

The Tell-Tale Brain by V.S. Ramachandran

Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran

Neuroscience for Non-Scientists

110 books — 118 voters

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“ Recent brain scans have shed light on how the brain simulates the future. These simulation are done mainly in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the CEO of the brain, using memories of the past. On one hand, simulations of the future may produce outcomes that are desirable and pleasurable, in which case the pleasure centers of the brain light up (in the nucleus accumbens and the hypothalamus). On the other hand, these outcomes may also have a downside to them, so the orbitofrontal cortex kicks ...more ”
― Michio Kaku, The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind

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“ Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity ”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

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