Recommended books on the brain
- 'Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the misrepresentation of humanity', Raymond Tallis
- ‘Blink: The power of thinking without thinking’, Malcolm Gladwell
- 'Connectome: How the brain's wiring makes us who we are', Sebastian Seung
- 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' Philip K Dick
- 'I Know What You're Thinking: Brain imaging and mental privacy', Sarah D Richmond, Geraint Rees and Sarah JL Edwards (eds)
- 'Mapping the Mind', Rita Carter
- 'Mind Hacks: Tips and tools for using your brain', Tom Stafford and Matt Webb
- 'My Stroke of Insight', Dr Jill Bolte Taylor
- ‘Neuromania: On the limits of brain science’, Paolo Legrenzi, Carlo Umilta and Frances Anderson
- 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', George Orwell
- 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', Ken Kesey
- 'Portraits of the Mind', Carl Schoonover
- 'The Rough Guide to the Brain', Barry J Gibb
- 'The Essential Difference: Men, women and the extreme male brain', Simon Baron-Cohen
- 'The Human Brain Colouring Book', Marion C Diamond, Arnold B Scheibel and LM Elson
- 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat', Oliver Sacks
- 'The Master and His Emissary: The divided brain and the making of the Western world', Iain McGilchrist
- 'The Psychopath Test: A journey through the madness industry', Jon Ronson
- ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’, Daniel Kahneman
- 'To See But Not To See: A case study of visual agnosia', Glyn Humphreys and Jane Riddoch
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