Neuroscience

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system.

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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
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
Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
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
Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond
Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World
The Brain at Rest: How the Art and Science of Doing Nothing Can Improve Your Life
Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian's Guide to Autism
The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
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
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness by Patrick  HouseReading in the Brain by Stanislas DehaeneThe New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty EdwardsSpark by John J. RateyThe Learning Brain by Torkel Klingberg
Neuroscience and education
23 books — 14 voters
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
443 books — 298 voters

Shutter Island by Dennis LehaneDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonLeft Neglected by Lisa GenovaParagon by Aubrey WattBlindsight by Peter Watts
Best Fiction for Neuroscientists
14 books — 5 voters


Abhijit Naskar
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Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

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
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