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• Livewired

  the Inside Story of the Ever-changing Brain

  Eagleman, David,

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  "Reveals the myriad ways that the brain absorbs experience: developing, redeploying, organizing, and arranging the data it receives from the body's own absorption of external stimuli, which enables us to gain the skills, the facilities, and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Molecule Away From Madness

  Tales of the Hijacked Brain

  Peskin, Sara Manning,

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  "A neurologist regales readers with extraordinary stories of the brain under siege. Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: The very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Into the Gray Zone

  a Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death

  Owen, Adrian M.,

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  "A neuroscientist reveals his work with patients believed to be brain dead to explain how up to twenty percent of them were still consciously alive, sharing insights into what life may be like for such patients and its moral implications."

• Elusive Cures

  Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders - and How We Can Change That

  Rust, Nicole C, 1975-

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  "Neuroscience has made massive progress in the last thirty years-we've seen multiple forms of technology revolutionize the field, and we've invested tremendous resources to pursue brain research globally. Though we've learned much about the brain…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Models of the Mind

  How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain

  Lindsay, Grace (Computational neuroscientist)

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  "Computational neuroscientist Grace Lindsay explains how mathematical models have allowed scientists to understand and describe many of the brain's processes, including decision-making, sensory processing, quantifying memory, and more. She…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gray Matters

  a Biography of Brain Surgery

  Schwartz, Theodore H.,

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  "In this warm, rigorous, and deeply insightful book, Dr. Theodore H. Schwartz explores what it’s like to hold the scalpel, wield the drill, extract a tumor, fix a bullet hole, and remove a blood clot—when every second can mean life or death. Drawing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night the Lights Went Out

  [a Memoir of Life After Brain Damage]

  Magary, Drew,

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  "The fan-favorite Defector and former Deadspin columnist shares his long recovery from a catastrophic brain hemorrhage and how he learned to live with a broken mind as he tried to figure out who this new person is, in this fascinating, darkly funny…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Phantoms in the Brain

  Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind

  Ramachandran, V. S.

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  "Dr. Ramachandran recounts how his work with patients who have bizarre neurological disorders has shed new light on the deep architecture of the brain, and what these findings tell us about who we are, how we construct our body image, why we laugh…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brain on Fire

  My Month of Madness

  Cahalan, Susannah

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  "Her medical record, from a month-long hospital stay of which she had no memory, showed psychosis, violence, and dangerous instability. Yet, only weeks earlier she had been a healthy, ambitious twenty-four-old. Susannah's astonishing memoir…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Stroke of Insight

  a Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

  Taylor, Jill Bolte, 1959-

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  "On December 10, 1996, Taylor, a brain scientist, experienced a massive stroke. She observed her own mind deteriorate. Now she shares her unique perspective on the brain and its capacity for recovery."

• Consciousness and the Social Brain

  Graziano, Michael S. A., 1967-

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  "Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the deepest mystery of them all. In Graziano's theory, the machinery that attributes awareness to others also attributes it to oneself. Damage that machinery…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

  the History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

  Kean, Sam,

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  "Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike--strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents--and see how victims coped. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. Observers were…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Remember

  the Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting

  Genova, Lisa,

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  "The Harvard-trained neuroscientist presents an exploration of the intricacies of human memory that distinguishes between normal and concerning memory loss while explaining the profound roles of sleep, stress, and other contributing influences."

• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

  Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015,

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  "Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able…Read moreRead more of this annotation