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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 — 40,407 ratings — published 2007
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 594,094 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 4.05 — 247,896 ratings — published 1985
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 34,624 ratings — published 2011
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,864 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 — 20,614 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 — 84,883 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 — 34,481 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 — 8,293 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 — 565,610 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 — 33,172 ratings — published 2010
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 68,105 ratings — published 2006
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 — 477,278 ratings — published 2012
Hallucinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,420 ratings — published 2012
The Mind's Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,841 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 — 17,452 ratings — published 2008
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,142 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 — 94,468 ratings — published 2011
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,133 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 — 10,932 ratings — published 2010
How We Decide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 41,586 ratings — published 2009
On Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,977 ratings — published 2004
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,276 ratings — published 2017
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 229,090 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 4.35 — 286,434 ratings — published 2014
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 238,852 ratings — published 2012
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 131,585 ratings — published 2008
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,726 ratings — published 2010
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,883 ratings — published 1995
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 624,131 ratings — published 2005
Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,060 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 — 29,723 ratings — published 2004
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 28,276 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 — 13,838 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 — 15,575 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 4.13 — 40,057 ratings — published 2012
Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.65 — 5,512 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 — 2,210 ratings — published 2001
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 125,917 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 — 14,990 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 — 32,745 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 — 4,080 ratings — published 1999
The Mind & the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,750 ratings — published 2001
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 43,179 ratings — published 2014
The Brain: The Story of You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 22,994 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 — 191,219 ratings — published 2016
The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,804 ratings — published 2015
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.58 — 42,182 ratings — published 2007
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 22,768 ratings — published 2014
“Smell was our first sense, and it was so successful that in time the small lump of olfactory tissue atop the nerve cord grew into a brain. Our cerebral hemispheres were originally buds from our olfactory stalks. We think because we smelled.”
― A Natural History of the Senses
― A Natural History of the Senses
“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
