Brain

The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. Only a few invertebrates such as sponges, jellyfish, adult sea squirts and starfish do not have a brain; diffuse or localized nerve nets are present instead. The brain is located in the head, usually close to the primary sensory organs for such senses as vision, hearing, balance, taste, and smell. The brain is the most complex organ in a vertebrate's body. ...more

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Unmasked: The Ultimate Guide to ADHD, Autism and Neurodivergence
How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It)
Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
The Brain at Rest: How the Art and Science of Doing Nothing Can Improve Your Life
Your Brain's Not Broken: Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD
The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
Rewire: Break the Cycle, Alter Your Thoughts and Create Lasting Change
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD)
The Brain: The Story of You
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
How the Mind Works
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
The Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph CampbellThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
How we see the world
585 books — 167 voters

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Head Science
166 books — 58 voters
The HIPUS® Revolution by Mark SorensenA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill  BrysonNineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness by Patrick  HouseThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaCosmos by Carl Sagan
Sciency Books For Every Curious Mind
101 books — 67 voters


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George Carlin
“ But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the whole being for the moment. No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open, completely themselves when that message hits the brain and the laugh begins. That's when new ideas can be implanted. If a new idea slips in at that moment, it has a chance to grow. ...more ”
― George Carlin, Last Words

Robyn Mundell
“ Right? I don’t know why I did it. Temporary insanity, maybe. Did you ever do something that makes absolutely no sense, but you couldn’t help yourself? ”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

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