Books folder of textbooks in Holmes Lab Box

Pop Culture Neuroscience Books, Podcasts, TED Talks & Movies

Recommendations by neuroscientists: general interest books, movies and other media about various topics in neuroscience.

(Adapted by Kaley from Aizenmann lab Google Doc & various other threads)

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
Neurotribes - Steve Silberman
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Calahan
Delusions of Gender - Cordelia Fine
A Primate’s Memoir - Robert Sapolsky
Think Tank - multiple authors
An Alchemy of Mind - Diane Ackerman
The Three Pound Enigma - Shannon Moffet
Phantoms in the Brain - VS Ramachandran
Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist - Ben Barres
Time, Love, Memory - Jonathan Weiner
How to Make a Zombie - Frank Swain
Unique: The New Science of Human Individuality – David Linden
Innate: How the wiring of our brains shapes who we are – Kevin Mitchell
The Entangled Brain: How Percetion, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together – Luiz Pessoa
In Praise of Imperfection: My Life and Work - Rita Levi-Montalcini
The tale of Dueling Neurosurgeons - Sam Kean
Musicophilia – Oliver Sacks
How to Change Your Mind: What the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness
Neurogastronomy: How the bran creates flavor and why it matters – Gordon Shepherd
Models of the Mind by Grace Lindsay @neurograce
A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett @maxsbennett
The Experience Machine by Andy Clark.
Ed Yong, An Immense World
‘Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain’ by Patricia Churchland
History of Neuroscience in Autobiography: series from SfN