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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 41,165 ratings — published 2007
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 615,860 ratings — published 2011
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 254,210 ratings — published 1985
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 35,172 ratings — published 2011
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,406 ratings — published 2007
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,940 ratings — published 1998
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 87,280 ratings — published 2018
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD)
by (shelved 10 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,753 ratings — published 2008
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,505 ratings — published 2007
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 576,637 ratings — published 2012
Hallucinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,884 ratings — published 2012
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 33,831 ratings — published 2010
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 485,309 ratings — published 2012
The Mind's Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,072 ratings — published 2010
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,759 ratings — published 2008
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 69,140 ratings — published 2006
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,148 ratings — published 2002
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 95,489 ratings — published 2011
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,381 ratings — published 1997
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,004 ratings — published 2010
How We Decide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 41,843 ratings — published 2009
On Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,004 ratings — published 2004
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,869 ratings — published 2017
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 238,215 ratings — published 2017
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 308,783 ratings — published 2014
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 243,145 ratings — published 2012
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 133,107 ratings — published 2008
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,995 ratings — published 2010
An Anthropologist on Mars (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,314 ratings — published 1995
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 630,772 ratings — published 2005
Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,087 ratings — published 2007
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 29,925 ratings — published 2004
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,618 ratings — published 2016
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 14,146 ratings — published 2014
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 15,795 ratings — published 2014
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 43,060 ratings — published 2012
Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.64 — 5,660 ratings — published 2013
A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,229 ratings — published 2001
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 127,400 ratings — published 2009
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,209 ratings — published 2009
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 33,433 ratings — published 2006
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,147 ratings — published 1999
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,831 ratings — published 1977
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,377 ratings — published 2006
The Mind & the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,781 ratings — published 2001
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,454 ratings — published 2020
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 44,446 ratings — published 2014
The Brain: The Story of You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 23,697 ratings — published 2015
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,613 ratings — published 2016
“To a large extent, the brain doesn’t distinguish real from imaginary, and this underpins some aspects of the placebo effect. When you imagine that something is happening, it really is happening as far as your brain is concerned, and it releases the chemical substances necessary to confirm that what you’re imagining is indeed real.”
― Why Woo-Woo Works: The Surprising Science Behind Meditation, Reiki, Crystals, and Other Alternative Practices
― Why Woo-Woo Works: The Surprising Science Behind Meditation, Reiki, Crystals, and Other Alternative Practices
“Understanding this brain‑based battle can be empowering.”
― The Council of Gods
― The Council of Gods
