Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions

The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

Temple Grandin, Richard Panek · 256 pages

I have before me as a reviewer for amazon.com/vine an Advance Reading Copy of Grandin's THE AUTISTIC BRAIN (2013). Notably absent are a score or more of illustrations.

The Man Who Couldn't Stop

David Adam · 324 pages

**An intimate look at the power of intrusive thoughts, how our brains can turn against us, and living with obsessive compulsive disorder** Have you ever had a strange urge to jump from a tall building or steer your car into oncoming traffic? You are not alone. In this captivating fusion of science, history, and personal memoir, David Adam explores the weird thoughts that exist within every mind

The Woman Who Changed Her Brain: Stories of Transformation from the Frontier of Brain Science

Barbara Arrowsmith-Young

The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

Alice W. Flaherty · 321 pages

Awakenings

Oliver Sacks · 344 pages

This is the extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive "awakening" effect they experienced 40 years later through a new drug L-DOPA administered by Dr Sacks. The stories he tells of these remarkable individuals are moving, often courageous and sometimes tragic. Through them he

The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain

James Fallon · 246 pages

A compelling career memoir by an award-winning neuroscientist describes how while studying his own family's brain scans for research he made the disturbing discovery that his own reflected a pattern he recognized from those in the brains of serial killers, a finding that offered new insights into the role of biology in behavior.

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

John J. Ratey · 304 pages

A groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD.Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever simply by elevating your heart rate and breaking a sweat? The evidence is incontrovertible: Aerobic

Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior

Leonard Mlodinow · 272 pages

Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist

Christof Koch · 181 pages

"What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bioelectrical activity in the brain? How can anything physical give rise to nonphysical, subjective, conscious states? Christof Koch has devoted much of his career to bridging the seemingly unbridgeable gap between the physics of the brain and phenomenal experience. This engaging book--part scientific overview, part memoir, part fu

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

Jill Bolte Taylor · 188 pages

I Am a Strange Loop

Douglas R. Hofstadter · 424 pages

Hofstadter's long-awaited return to the themes of Gödel, Escher, Bach--an original and controversial view of the nature of consciousness and identity. What do we mean when we say "I"? Can a self, a soul, a consciousness, an "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? This book argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is a special kind of abstract

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert M. Sapolsky · 790 pages

Why do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise mo

Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power

Dan Hurley · 275 pages

With vivid stories of lives transformed, science journalist Dan Hurley delivers practical findings for people of every age and ability. Along the way, he narrates with acid-tongued wit his experiences as a human guinea pig, road-testing commercial brain-training programs, learning to play the Renaissance lute, getting physically fit, even undergoing transcranial direct current stimulation.

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

Daniel J. Levitin · 321 pages

This book explores the connection between music and its performances, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it and the human brain.

The Female Brain

Louann Brizendine · 279 pages

While doing research as a medical student at Yale and then as a resident and faculty member at Harvard, Dr. Brizendine discovered that almost all of the clinical data on neurology, psychology, and neurobiology focused exclusively on males. In response to the need for information on the female mind, Brizendine established the first clinic in the country to study and treat women's brain function. At

Proust Was a Neuroscientist

Jonah Lehrer · 242 pages

"Quick book recommendation for you. I finished reading this about a week ago and it's still lingering in my thoughts. I always intend to blog the dogeared pages, but never get around to it. In a nutshell: Jonah Lehrer explores how artists from various disciplines and eras have pre-empted neuroscience by intuiting or reflecting particular parts of brain function. Lovely, accessible, thoughtful, a s

Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves

Sharon Begley · 304 pages

Is it really possible to change the structure and function of the brain, and in so doing alter how we think and feel? The answer is a resounding yes. In late 2004, leading Western scientists joined the Dalai Lama at his home in Dharamsala, India, to address this very question--and in the process brought about a revolution in our understanding of the human mind. In this fascinating and far-reaching

Head Trip

Jeff Warren · 391 pages

Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences

Cordelia Fine · 320 pages

Subtitle: How our minds, society, and neurosexism create difference Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, the author criticizes claims about innate biological differences between men and women's minds as being faulty and exaggerated and considers how cultural and societal beliefs contribute to sex differences. Cornelia Fine is an academic psychologist.

The Emperor's New Mind Concerning Computers, Minds and the Laws of Physics

Roger Penrose, Martin Gardner · 480 pages

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Maryanne Wolf · 320 pages

In the Book. Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, Harper Perennial, 2008. This is an account of how our brains change as we learn to read.

Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique

Michael S. Gazzaniga · 352 pages

One of the world's leading neuroscientists explores how best to understand the human condition by examining the biological, psychological, and highly social nature of our species within the social context of our lives.What happened along the evolutionary trail that made humans so unique? In his widely accessible style, Michael Gazzaniga looks to a broad range of studies to pinpoint the change that

Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions

Stephen L. Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde, Sandra Blakeslee · 291 pages

Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, the founders of the new discipline of neuromagic, have convinced some of the world's greatest magicians to allow scientists to study their techniques for tricking the brain. This book is the result of the authors' yearlong, world-wide exploration of magic and how its principles apply to our behavior. Magic tricks fool us because humans have hardwired proc

Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How To Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Behavior

Sandra Aamodt, Sam Wang · 248 pages