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📜 Brain History

The fascinating story of how humanity came to understand the brain — from ancient trepanation to modern neuroimaging, tracing centuries of discovery about the organ that defines us.
Gray Matters
by Theodore H. Schwartz • 2024
Brain surgery went from coin-flip gamble to wiring minds to machines. A neurosurgeon traces the arc.
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1k+
🧠 Neurosurgery🏥 History Of Medicine🧬 Brain Science
Gray Matters Summary
Gray Matters 93%
Brain surgery went from coin-flip gamble to wiring minds to machines. A neurosurgeon traces the arc.
by Theodore H. Schwartz 2024
4.36
1k+ ratings
🧠 Neurosurgery🏥 History Of Medicine🧬 Brain Science
The Root of Thought
by Andrew Koob • 2009
Neurons are ten percent of your brain. The overlooked ninety percent may control thought itself.
3.68
135
🧠 Neuroscience History🔄 Brain Plasticity💭 Memory Science
The Root of Thought Summary
The Root of Thought 93%
Neurons are ten percent of your brain. The overlooked ninety percent may control thought itself.
by Andrew Koob 2009
3.68
135 ratings
🧠 Neuroscience History🔄 Brain Plasticity💭 Memory Science
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
by Sam Kean • 2014
History's most bizarre brain traumas, and what each one revealed about your mind.
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14k+
🧠 Neuroscience📜 History Of Science🏥 Medical History
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons Summary
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons 93%
History's most bizarre brain traumas, and what each one revealed about your mind.
by Sam Kean 2014
4.25
14k+ ratings
🧠 Neuroscience📜 History Of Science🏥 Medical History
Great Myths of the Brain
by Christian Jarrett • 2014
10% usage, right-brain creativity, five senses: all myths. The brain behind them is far weirder.
3.83
161
🧠 Popular Neuroscience💥 Myth Debunking🏃 Embodied Cognition
Great Myths of the Brain Summary
Great Myths of the Brain 93%
10% usage, right-brain creativity, five senses: all myths. The brain behind them is far weirder.
by Christian Jarrett 2014
3.83
161 ratings
🧠 Popular Neuroscience💥 Myth Debunking🏃 Embodied Cognition
How the Brain Works
by D.K. Publishing • 2020
160 billion cells, 20% of your fuel, 3 pounds: a visual guide to the organ that makes you.
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280
🧠 Brain Anatomy📊 Visual Reference🧪 Popular Neuroscience
How the Brain Works Summary
How the Brain Works 92%
160 billion cells, 20% of your fuel, 3 pounds: a visual guide to the organ that makes you.
by D.K. Publishing 2020
4.29
280 ratings
🧠 Brain Anatomy📊 Visual Reference🧪 Popular Neuroscience
Neuroplasticity
by Moheb Costandi • 2016
Your brain rewires every time you learn, heal, or crave. The science behind the lifelong remodel.
3.98
836
🧠 Neuroscience🔄 Neuroplasticity🌱 Brain Development
Neuroplasticity Summary
Neuroplasticity 91%
Your brain rewires every time you learn, heal, or crave. The science behind the lifelong remodel.
by Moheb Costandi 2016
3.98
836 ratings
🧠 Neuroscience🔄 Neuroplasticity🌱 Brain Development
Welcome to Your Brain
by Sandra Aamodt • 2008
The brain science behind lost keys, bad gambles, and why you can't tickle yourself.
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2k+
🧠 Brain Science🔬 Everyday Neuroscience🎯 Cognitive Biases
Welcome to Your Brain Summary
Welcome to Your Brain 91%
The brain science behind lost keys, bad gambles, and why you can't tickle yourself.
by Sandra Aamodt 2008
3.72
2k+ ratings
🧠 Brain Science🔬 Everyday Neuroscience🎯 Cognitive Biases
Cognitive Neuroscience
by Richard Passingham • 2016
Seeing is not believing: your brain builds reality from parallel streams, then fact-checks itself.
3.71
318
🧠 Brain Science📚 Cognitive Psychology🧪 Neuropsychology
Cognitive Neuroscience Summary
Cognitive Neuroscience 91%
Seeing is not believing: your brain builds reality from parallel streams, then fact-checks itself.
by Richard Passingham 2016
3.71
318 ratings
🧠 Brain Science📚 Cognitive Psychology🧪 Neuropsychology
The Disordered Mind
by Eric R. Kandel • 2018
Brain disorders are a natural experiment: they show what each neural circuit actually does.
4.13
3k+
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🏥 Neuropsychiatry🩺 Brain Disorders
The Disordered Mind Summary
The Disordered Mind 91%
Brain disorders are a natural experiment: they show what each neural circuit actually does.
by Eric R. Kandel 2018
4.13
3k+ ratings
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🏥 Neuropsychiatry🩺 Brain Disorders
A Triune Concept of the Brain and Behaviour
by Paul D. MacLean • 1974
You have three brains. The ancient one is in charge and cannot read this sentence.
4.29
7
🦎 Brain Evolution🧠 Evolutionary Psychology❤️ Affective Neuroscience
A Triune Concept of the Brain and Behaviour Summary
A Triune Concept of the Brain and Behaviour 91%
You have three brains. The ancient one is in charge and cannot read this sentence.
by Paul D. MacLean 1974
4.29
7 ratings
🦎 Brain Evolution🧠 Evolutionary Psychology❤️ Affective Neuroscience
Your Brain
by Matthew MacDonald • 2008
A manual for the hardware you were born with: how perception, memory, and emotion really work.
3.77
367
🧠 Pop Neuroscience🧩 Neuroplasticity🧬 Evolutionary Psychology
Your Brain Summary
Your Brain 91%
A manual for the hardware you were born with: how perception, memory, and emotion really work.
by Matthew MacDonald 2008
3.77
367 ratings
🧠 Pop Neuroscience🧩 Neuroplasticity🧬 Evolutionary Psychology
How the Mind Changed
by Joseph Jebelli • 2022
The human brain didn't just get bigger. It learned to cook, gossip, and hallucinate a self.
4.06
348
🧬 Human Evolution🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🧩 Evolutionary Psychology
How the Mind Changed Summary
How the Mind Changed 91%
The human brain didn't just get bigger. It learned to cook, gossip, and hallucinate a self.
by Joseph Jebelli 2022
4.06
348 ratings
🧬 Human Evolution🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🧩 Evolutionary Psychology
The Future of the Brain
by Gary F. Marcus • 2014
The brain's future, mapped by neuroscientists building it: from gene to circuit to consciousness
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210
🧠 Neuroscience Research🗺️ Brain Mapping⚡ Neural Circuits
The Future of the Brain Summary
The Future of the Brain 91%
The brain's future, mapped by neuroscientists building it: from gene to circuit to consciousness
by Gary F. Marcus 2014
3.70
210 ratings
🧠 Neuroscience Research🗺️ Brain Mapping⚡ Neural Circuits
How Your Brain Works
by New Scientist • 2017
86 billion neurons construct your reality, rewrite your past, and scrub themselves clean each night.
3.92
353
🧠 Neuroscience Primers👁️ Perception And Reality💭 Memory Systems
How Your Brain Works Summary
How Your Brain Works 91%
86 billion neurons construct your reality, rewrite your past, and scrub themselves clean each night.
by New Scientist 2017
3.92
353 ratings
🧠 Neuroscience Primers👁️ Perception And Reality💭 Memory Systems
The Brain
by Marco Magrini • 2017
Your brain rewires daily: the operating guide biology class never gave you.
4.12
705
🧠 Brain Science🔄 Neuroplasticity💪 Brain Health
The Brain Summary
The Brain 91%
Your brain rewires daily: the operating guide biology class never gave you.
by Marco Magrini 2017
4.12
705 ratings
🧠 Brain Science🔄 Neuroplasticity💪 Brain Health
Mind Wide Open
by Steven Johnson • 1999
A writer makes his own brain the case study, and the findings rewrite the self.
3.90
6k+
🧠 Pop Neuroscience🧩 Cognitive Science🗣️ Social Neuroscience
Mind Wide Open Summary
Mind Wide Open 91%
A writer makes his own brain the case study, and the findings rewrite the self.
by Steven Johnson 1999
3.90
6k+ ratings
🧠 Pop Neuroscience🧩 Cognitive Science🗣️ Social Neuroscience
The New Mind Readers
by Russell A. Poldrack • 2018
Brain scans map blood flow, not thought. A pioneer reveals what fMRI can and cannot do.
3.93
168
🧠 Brain Imaging🔄 Neural Plasticity⚖️ Neuroethics
The New Mind Readers Summary
The New Mind Readers 91%
Brain scans map blood flow, not thought. A pioneer reveals what fMRI can and cannot do.
by Russell A. Poldrack 2018
3.93
168 ratings
🧠 Brain Imaging🔄 Neural Plasticity⚖️ Neuroethics
The Dragons of Eden
by Carl Sagan • 1977
Your skull houses a reptile, a mammal, and a thinker, and they rarely get along.
4.19
22k+
📖 Popular Science🧠 Brain Evolution🦴 Human Origins
The Dragons of Eden Summary
The Dragons of Eden 91%
Your skull houses a reptile, a mammal, and a thinker, and they rarely get along.
by Carl Sagan 1977
4.19
22k+ ratings
📖 Popular Science🧠 Brain Evolution🦴 Human Origins
Everything in Its Place
by Oliver Sacks • 2019
Oliver Sacks's final essays: what broken brains reveal about music, identity, and being human.
4.14
3k+
🧠 Neurology🩺 Medical Humanities📖 Narrative Medicine
Everything in Its Place Summary
Everything in Its Place 91%
Oliver Sacks's final essays: what broken brains reveal about music, identity, and being human.
by Oliver Sacks 2019
4.14
3k+ ratings
🧠 Neurology🩺 Medical Humanities📖 Narrative Medicine
Your Brain, Explained
by Marc Dingman • 2019
No fear center. No memory center. Just sprawling networks. A clear-eyed tour of your actual brain.
4.15
629
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🕸️ Distributed Processing👁️ Attention And Perception
Your Brain, Explained Summary
Your Brain, Explained 91%
No fear center. No memory center. Just sprawling networks. A clear-eyed tour of your actual brain.
by Marc Dingman 2019
4.15
629 ratings
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🕸️ Distributed Processing👁️ Attention And Perception
Brain Facts
by The Society for Neuroscience • 2002
Your three-pound universe: a walk through the biology that thinks, remembers, and sleeps.
3.93
125
🧠 Neuroscience Primers🧠 Brain Anatomy⚡ Neural Communication
Brain Facts Summary
Brain Facts 91%
Your three-pound universe: a walk through the biology that thinks, remembers, and sleeps.
by The Society for Neuroscience 2002
3.93
125 ratings
🧠 Neuroscience Primers🧠 Brain Anatomy⚡ Neural Communication
Soul Machine
by George Makari • 2015
Science couldn't find the soul. So early modern Europe invented the mind to take its place.
3.82
157
🧠 Intellectual History🧪 History Of Psychology💭 Philosophy Of Mind
Soul Machine Summary
Soul Machine 91%
Science couldn't find the soul. So early modern Europe invented the mind to take its place.
by George Makari 2015
3.82
157 ratings
🧠 Intellectual History🧪 History Of Psychology💭 Philosophy Of Mind
Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon
by Rahul Jandial • 2019
A brain surgeon on protecting your mind: sleep, fasting, a second language work; brain games don't.
4.11
4k+
🧠 Brain Health🔄 Neuroplasticity🔬 Popular Neuroscience
Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon Summary
Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon 91%
A brain surgeon on protecting your mind: sleep, fasting, a second language work; brain games don't.
by Rahul Jandial 2019
4.11
4k+ ratings
🧠 Brain Health🔄 Neuroplasticity🔬 Popular Neuroscience
Soft-Wired
by Michael Merzenich • 2013
Brain plasticity can work for you or against you. The difference is in your daily habits.
3.98
379
🧠 Brain Health🔄 Neuroplasticity🧩 Brain Training
Soft-Wired Summary
Soft-Wired 91%
Brain plasticity can work for you or against you. The difference is in your daily habits.
by Michael Merzenich 2013
3.98
379 ratings
🧠 Brain Health🔄 Neuroplasticity🧩 Brain Training
Phantoms in the Brain
by V.S. Ramachandran • 1998
A missing arm can still hurt. That paradox unlocks how your brain constructs reality.
4.27
21k+
🧠 Neuropsychology🔄 Brain Plasticity🏥 Neurological Disorders
Phantoms in the Brain Summary
Phantoms in the Brain 91%
A missing arm can still hurt. That paradox unlocks how your brain constructs reality.
by V.S. Ramachandran 1998
4.27
21k+ ratings
🧠 Neuropsychology🔄 Brain Plasticity🏥 Neurological Disorders
The Neuroscience of You
by Chantel Prat • 2022
Your brain isn't like anyone else's. Neuroscience finally has a field guide for that.
3.80
1k+
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🌈 Neurodiversity🔄 Brain Plasticity
The Neuroscience of You Summary
The Neuroscience of You 91%
Your brain isn't like anyone else's. Neuroscience finally has a field guide for that.
by Chantel Prat 2022
3.80
1k+ ratings
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🌈 Neurodiversity🔄 Brain Plasticity
A History of the Human Brain
by Bret Stetka • 2021
Seafood, gossip, and cooking built the human brain; now we're directing its evolution.
4.00
379
🧬 Human Evolution🧠 Evolutionary Neuroscience👥 Social Brain
A History of the Human Brain Summary
A History of the Human Brain 91%
Seafood, gossip, and cooking built the human brain; now we're directing its evolution.
by Bret Stetka 2021
4.00
379 ratings
🧬 Human Evolution🧠 Evolutionary Neuroscience👥 Social Brain
Reading in the Brain
by Stanislas Dehaene • 2007
The brain never evolved to read. Writing systems adapted to the brain's older circuits instead.
4.06
2k+
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience📖 Reading Science🔄 Brain Plasticity
Reading in the Brain Summary
Reading in the Brain 91%
The brain never evolved to read. Writing systems adapted to the brain's older circuits instead.
by Stanislas Dehaene 2007
4.06
2k+ ratings
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience📖 Reading Science🔄 Brain Plasticity
Cognitive Neuroscience
by Michael S. Gazzaniga • 1998
How does the brain produce the mind? A map of its systems for perception, memory, and consciousness.
4.12
767
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🗺️ Functional Localization↔️ Hemispheric Specialization
Cognitive Neuroscience Summary
Cognitive Neuroscience 91%
How does the brain produce the mind? A map of its systems for perception, memory, and consciousness.
by Michael S. Gazzaniga 1998
4.12
767 ratings
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🗺️ Functional Localization↔️ Hemispheric Specialization
Synaptic Self
by Joseph E. LeDoux • 2002
Your self is built from synapses: how memory, emotion, and consciousness circuits create identity.
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5k+
🧠 Neuroscience Of Self🔄 Neuroplasticity📸 Memory And Identity
Synaptic Self Summary
Synaptic Self 91%
Your self is built from synapses: how memory, emotion, and consciousness circuits create identity.
by Joseph E. LeDoux 2002
4.00
5k+ ratings
🧠 Neuroscience Of Self🔄 Neuroplasticity📸 Memory And Identity
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks • 1985
When brains break, the self bends but doesn't vanish: clinical tales of what persists.
4.05
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🩺 Narrative Medicine🧠 Popular Neuroscience🤝 Clinical Empathy
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Summary
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales 91%
When brains break, the self bends but doesn't vanish: clinical tales of what persists.
by Oliver Sacks 1985
4.05
249k+ ratings
🩺 Narrative Medicine🧠 Popular Neuroscience🤝 Clinical Empathy
The End of Mental Illness
by Daniel G. Amen • 2020
Mental illness is a misnomer. Brain scans reveal physical damage, and brain health can reverse it.
4.02
2k+
🧠 Brain Health🔬 Brain Imaging🩺 Functional Medicine
The End of Mental Illness Summary
The End of Mental Illness 91%
Mental illness is a misnomer. Brain scans reveal physical damage, and brain health can reverse it.
by Daniel G. Amen 2020
4.02
2k+ ratings
🧠 Brain Health🔬 Brain Imaging🩺 Functional Medicine
The Tell-Tale Brain
by V.S. Ramachandran • 2010
Mirror neurons, cells that fire whether you act or watch someone else, are what made us human.
4.15
11k+
🧠 Neuroplasticity🪞 Mirror Neurons🎨 Neuroaesthetics
The Tell-Tale Brain Summary
The Tell-Tale Brain 90%
Mirror neurons, cells that fire whether you act or watch someone else, are what made us human.
by V.S. Ramachandran 2010
4.15
11k+ ratings
🧠 Neuroplasticity🪞 Mirror Neurons🎨 Neuroaesthetics
Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
by Lisa Feldman Barrett • 2020
Your brain's real job is body regulation, not thinking, and that changes everything.
4.04
9k+
🧠 Neuroscience Myths🧬 Brain Evolution🔮 Predictive Processing
Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain Summary
Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain 90%
Your brain's real job is body regulation, not thinking, and that changes everything.
by Lisa Feldman Barrett 2020
4.04
9k+ ratings
🧠 Neuroscience Myths🧬 Brain Evolution🔮 Predictive Processing
Livewired
by David Eagleman • 2014
Half a brain runs a full life because idle neural real estate gets claimed immediately.
4.16
5k+
🧠 Neuroscience🧩 Neuroplasticity👁️ Sensory Perception
Livewired Summary
Livewired 90%
Half a brain runs a full life because idle neural real estate gets claimed immediately.
by David Eagleman 2014
4.16
5k+ ratings
🧠 Neuroscience🧩 Neuroplasticity👁️ Sensory Perception
The Brain
by David Eagleman • 2015
Your self is a construction rebuilt daily by a brain that will run on any hardware.
4.25
23k+
🧠 Neuroplasticity🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience🎭 Constructed Reality
The Brain Summary
The Brain 90%
Your self is a construction rebuilt daily by a brain that will run on any hardware.
by David Eagleman 2015
4.25
23k+ ratings
🧠 Neuroplasticity🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience🎭 Constructed Reality
The Neuroscience of Intelligence
by Richard J. Haier • 2015
Intelligence is largely inherited and stubbornly hard to improve. The neuroscience is clear.
4.23
453
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience📊 IQ Research🧬 Behavioral Genetics
The Neuroscience of Intelligence Summary
The Neuroscience of Intelligence 90%
Intelligence is largely inherited and stubbornly hard to improve. The neuroscience is clear.
by Richard J. Haier 2015
4.23
453 ratings
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience📊 IQ Research🧬 Behavioral Genetics
Connections
by Karl Deisseroth • 2021
What mental illness reveals about the brain, from the psychiatrist who invented optogenetics.
3.78
285
🧠 Clinical Neuroscience🐒 Evolutionary Psychology📋 Patient Case Studies
Connections Summary
Connections 90%
What mental illness reveals about the brain, from the psychiatrist who invented optogenetics.
by Karl Deisseroth 2021
3.78
285 ratings
🧠 Clinical Neuroscience🐒 Evolutionary Psychology📋 Patient Case Studies
In Search of Memory
by Eric R. Kandel • 2006
How a sea slug's simple nervous system taught a Vienna refugee the universal recipe for memory.
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5k+
🧠 Synaptic Plasticity🔬 Molecular Biology😨 Learned Fear
In Search of Memory Summary
In Search of Memory 90%
How a sea slug's simple nervous system taught a Vienna refugee the universal recipe for memory.
by Eric R. Kandel 2006
4.14
5k+ ratings
🧠 Synaptic Plasticity🔬 Molecular Biology😨 Learned Fear
Think Smart
by Richard Restak • 2009
Six months of aerobics grows the brain. A neuroscientist reveals what else works.
3.74
605
🔄 Neuroplasticity🧠 Brain Health⚡ Cognitive Enhancement
Think Smart Summary
Think Smart 90%
Six months of aerobics grows the brain. A neuroscientist reveals what else works.
by Richard Restak 2009
3.74
605 ratings
🔄 Neuroplasticity🧠 Brain Health⚡ Cognitive Enhancement
The Mind's Eye
by Oliver Sacks • 2010
Blindness doesn't silence the visual brain. It retrains it, exposing how perception is built.
3.92
14k+
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🩺 Clinical Neurology🔄 Brain Plasticity
The Mind's Eye Summary
The Mind's Eye 90%
Blindness doesn't silence the visual brain. It retrains it, exposing how perception is built.
by Oliver Sacks 2010
3.92
14k+ ratings
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🩺 Clinical Neurology🔄 Brain Plasticity
The Future of the Mind
by Michio Kaku • 2014
Thoughts decoded. Memories rewritten. Consciousness uploaded. The brain is becoming hackable.
4.08
16k+
🧠 Popular Neuroscience💭 Consciousness Studies🔌 Brain-Computer Interfaces
The Future of the Mind Summary
The Future of the Mind 90%
Thoughts decoded. Memories rewritten. Consciousness uploaded. The brain is becoming hackable.
by Michio Kaku 2014
4.08
16k+ ratings
🧠 Popular Neuroscience💭 Consciousness Studies🔌 Brain-Computer Interfaces
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind
by Barbara K. Lipska • 2018
She studied mental illness for decades. Then 18 brain tumors gave it to her firsthand.
3.89
8k+
🧠 Neuroscience Memoir🔖 Medical Memoir🩺 Medical Mystery
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind Summary
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind 90%
She studied mental illness for decades. Then 18 brain tumors gave it to her firsthand.
by Barbara K. Lipska 2018
3.89
8k+ ratings
🧠 Neuroscience Memoir🔖 Medical Memoir🩺 Medical Mystery
Pictures of the Mind
by Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald • 2009
The self is a brain process you can train: neuroplasticity and meditation science reveal how.
3.76
894
🧠 Neuroplasticity🧘 Consciousness Studies💓 Affective Neuroscience
Pictures of the Mind Summary
Pictures of the Mind 90%
The self is a brain process you can train: neuroplasticity and meditation science reveal how.
by Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald 2009
3.76
894 ratings
🧠 Neuroplasticity🧘 Consciousness Studies💓 Affective Neuroscience
Awakenings
by Oliver Sacks • 1973
Patients frozen for decades woke on a single drug. The real trial was staying awake.
4.09
14k+
🔬 Clinical Neurology🫀 Humanistic Medicine🧠 Neuroplasticity
Awakenings Summary
Awakenings 90%
Patients frozen for decades woke on a single drug. The real trial was staying awake.
by Oliver Sacks 1973
4.09
14k+ ratings
🔬 Clinical Neurology🫀 Humanistic Medicine🧠 Neuroplasticity
An Alchemy of Mind
by Diane Ackerman • 2004
A poet's tour of the brain: how 100 billion neurons invent your reality.
3.96
1k+
🧠 Neuroscience🔬 Cognitive Science💭 Consciousness Studies
An Alchemy of Mind Summary
An Alchemy of Mind 90%
A poet's tour of the brain: how 100 billion neurons invent your reality.
by Diane Ackerman 2004
3.96
1k+ ratings
🧠 Neuroscience🔬 Cognitive Science💭 Consciousness Studies
The Forgetting Machine
by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga • 2017
Your memory stores roughly 125 MB. The real marvel is what your brain decides to forget.
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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🧠 Philosophy Of Mind🧠 Constructive Memory
The Forgetting Machine Summary
The Forgetting Machine 90%
Your memory stores roughly 125 MB. The real marvel is what your brain decides to forget.
by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga 2017
3.74
1k+ ratings
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🧠 Philosophy Of Mind🧠 Constructive Memory
On the Move
by Oliver Sacks • 2015
Patients frozen for decades took one drug and woke. Their neurologist was not ready.
4.03
22k+
🧠 Clinical Neurology🩺 Medical Memoir🧬 Neurological Disorders
On the Move Summary
On the Move 90%
Patients frozen for decades took one drug and woke. Their neurologist was not ready.
by Oliver Sacks 2015
4.03
22k+ ratings
🧠 Clinical Neurology🩺 Medical Memoir🧬 Neurological Disorders
Descartes' Error
by António Damásio • 1994
A railroad foreman's brain injury revealed that reason depends on emotion, not pure logic.
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10k+
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🤔 Philosophy Of Mind🦵 Embodied Cognition
Descartes' Error Summary
Descartes' Error 90%
A railroad foreman's brain injury revealed that reason depends on emotion, not pure logic.
by António Damásio 1994
3.95
10k+ ratings
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🤔 Philosophy Of Mind🦵 Embodied Cognition
The Brain That Changes Itself
by Norman Doidge • 2007
Paralyzed arm moved after 45 years. Phantom pain vanished in a mirror. The brain rewires itself.
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40k+
🧠 Neuroplasticity💪 Stroke Recovery🤕 Pain Science
The Brain That Changes Itself Summary
The Brain That Changes Itself 90%
Paralyzed arm moved after 45 years. Phantom pain vanished in a mirror. The brain rewires itself.
by Norman Doidge 2007
4.20
40k+ ratings
🧠 Neuroplasticity💪 Stroke Recovery🤕 Pain Science
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