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The book presents stories of recovery from strokes, learning disabilities, and more, which show the brain's adaptability. With examples of scientific breakthroughs, it simplifies complex ideas for ...

This March, the SciFri Book Club will read Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor’s The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss.Out in paperback this February, The Grieving Brain ...

From books about the beauty and intricacies of the brain, to ones that explore the neuroscience of autism and individuality, these are great to read and gift.

We sat next to a large glass cabinet containing the historical artifacts and curiosities of brain science: a wooden box bristling with electrodes and wires used for inducing electrical currents ...

Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the hippocampus—even into old age. Using advanced tools to examine brain samples ...

Neurologist Pria Anand recounts curious tales of the workings of the human mind in an elegant debut that is being compared to ...

The Ten Best Science Books of 2024. ... Daniel Levitin, a neuroscientist and musician whose 2006 book This Is Your Brain on Music spent more than a year on the New York Times best-seller list, ...

In Barrett’s book, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, she proposes that our emotions are neither hardwired nor universal, but rather the result of complex predictions based on ...

Carl Schoonover, a neuroscientist in training at Columbia University, has collected intriguing images of the brain for a new book, Portraits of the Mind (Abrams). “They are real data, not ...

In his new book, “The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science,” Alan Lightman describes watching the lives of a family of ospreys one summer near his house on a small island in ...

A new book by the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod explores the connections between brain biology and political beliefs. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...