Neuroscience

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system.

See also Science.
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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Dopamine Detox : A Short Guide to Remove Distractions and Train Your Brain to Do Hard Things (Productivity Series Book 1)
Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness
The Brain at Rest: How the Art and Science of Doing Nothing Can Improve Your Life
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
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World
Rewire: Break the Cycle, Alter Your Thoughts and Create Lasting Change
The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
The Brain: The Story of You
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
How the Mind Works
Principles of Neural Science
An Anthropologist on Mars
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell by Aldous HuxleyFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonTrainspotting by Irvine WelshUnderstanding Ketamine by D. LamarNeuroplasticity by Moheb Costandi
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A 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 OlaFrom Mountains to Medicine by Erica M. ElliottCosmos by Carl Sagan
Sciency Books For Every Curious Mind
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Shutter Island by Dennis LehaneDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonLeft Neglected by Lisa GenovaParagon by Aubrey WattBlindsight by Peter Watts
Best Fiction for Neuroscientists
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Mind by John Rogers SearleThe Neural Basis of Free Will by Peter TseThe Mechanical Mind by Tim CraneFrom Axons to Identity by Todd E. Feinberg MDNeurophilosophy by Patricia S. Churchland
What is Neurophilosophy?
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The Biology of Homosexuality by Jacques BalthazartGay, Straight, and the Reason Why by Simon LeVayThe Evolution of Human Sexuality by Donald SymonsThe Ape that Understood the Universe by Steve Stewart-WilliamsDifferent by Frans de Waal
Scinence on homosexuality
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Oliver Sacks
There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it. Perhaps, therefore, we should not be surprised, should not complain if the balance sometimes shifts too far and our musical sensitivity b ...more
Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Maybe the human brain is an object beyond the reach of metaphor, for the simple reason that it is the only object capable of creating metaphors to describe itself. There really is nothing else like it. The human brain creates the human mind, and then the human mind tries to underhand the human brain, however long it takes and whatever the cost.
Luke Dittrich, Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets

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