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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 278 times as brain)
avg rating 4.20 — 41,210 ratings — published 2007
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as brain)
avg rating 4.16 — 617,435 ratings — published 2011
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 201 times as brain)
avg rating 4.09 — 35,217 ratings — published 2011
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as brain)
avg rating 4.04 — 254,626 ratings — published 1985
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD)
by (shelved 161 times as brain)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,766 ratings — published 2008
The Brain: The Story of You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as brain)
avg rating 4.25 — 23,745 ratings — published 2015
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as brain)
avg rating 3.88 — 95,555 ratings — published 2011
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as brain)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,947 ratings — published 1998
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as brain)
avg rating 4.33 — 310,149 ratings — published 2014
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as brain)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,009 ratings — published 2010
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as brain)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,531 ratings — published 2007
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as brain)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,397 ratings — published 1997
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as brain)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,922 ratings — published 2017
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as brain)
avg rating 3.96 — 631,242 ratings — published 2005
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as brain)
avg rating 4.36 — 238,814 ratings — published 2017
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as brain)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,782 ratings — published 2008
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as brain)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,883 ratings — published 2010
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as brain)
avg rating 4.13 — 577,451 ratings — published 2012
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as brain)
avg rating 4.37 — 34,486 ratings — published 2017
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as brain)
avg rating 3.92 — 33,482 ratings — published 2006
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as brain)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,153 ratings — published 2021
The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as brain)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,968 ratings — published 2015
The Mind & the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as brain)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,782 ratings — published 2001
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 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as brain)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,840 ratings — published 2018
Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as brain)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,983 ratings — published 2020
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as brain)
avg rating 4.09 — 182,734 ratings — published 2006
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as brain)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,283 ratings — published 1994
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as brain)
avg rating 4.27 — 87,432 ratings — published 2018
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as brain)
avg rating 3.92 — 29,928 ratings — published 2004
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as brain)
avg rating 4.08 — 15,804 ratings — published 2014
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as brain)
avg rating 3.89 — 69,215 ratings — published 2006
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as brain)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,381 ratings — published 2006
Hallucinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as brain)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,904 ratings — published 2012
On Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as brain)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,005 ratings — published 2004
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 54 times as brain)
avg rating 4.09 — 243,435 ratings — published 2012
Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as brain)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,935 ratings — published 2009
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as brain)
avg rating 3.97 — 13,319 ratings — published 1998
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as brain)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,601 ratings — published 2014
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as brain)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,424,656 ratings — published 2018
The Mind's Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as brain)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,079 ratings — published 2010
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as brain)
avg rating 4.11 — 133,231 ratings — published 2008
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (ebook)
by (shelved 49 times as brain)
avg rating 3.87 — 99,207 ratings — published 2021
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as brain)
avg rating 3.65 — 14,915 ratings — published 2014
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as brain)
avg rating 4.07 — 485,879 ratings — published 2012
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as brain)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,759 ratings — published 1994
How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as brain)
avg rating 4.32 — 3,080 ratings — published 2018
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as brain)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,873 ratings — published 2012
Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as brain)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,243 ratings — published 2016
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as brain)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,028 ratings — published 2014
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as brain)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,148 ratings — published 2002
“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading – treading – till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through –
And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a Drum –
Kept beating – beating – till I thought
My Mind was going numb –
And then I heard them lift a Box
And creak across my Soul
With those same Boots of Lead, again,
Then Space – began to toll,
As all the Heavens were a Bell,
And Being, but an Ear,
And I, and Silence, some strange Race
Wrecked, solitary, here –
And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down –
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing – then –”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading – treading – till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through –
And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a Drum –
Kept beating – beating – till I thought
My Mind was going numb –
And then I heard them lift a Box
And creak across my Soul
With those same Boots of Lead, again,
Then Space – began to toll,
As all the Heavens were a Bell,
And Being, but an Ear,
And I, and Silence, some strange Race
Wrecked, solitary, here –
And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down –
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing – then –”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“When the river of emotions bursts its banks and expectations go over the edges of reality, the brain creates hallucinations. Ringxiety-stricken people feel illusive vibrating alerts and hear phantom phone rings, since absence of ringing generates scaring emptiness and destroys their self-esteem. ("Kein Schwein ruft mich an" )”
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