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Pictures of the Mind Summary
Pictures of the Mind
What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are
by Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald 2009 177 pages
3.76
500+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
Pieces of Light Summary
Pieces of Light
How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts
by Charles Fernyhough 2012 320 pages
3.53
468 ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
Your Memory Summary
Your Memory
A User's Guide
by Alan Baddeley 1982
3.77
271 ratings
Psychology
Science
Textbooks
Fire Up Your Writing Brain Summary
Fire Up Your Writing Brain
How to Use Proven Neuroscience to Become a More Creative, Productive, and Successful Writer
by Susan Reynolds 2015 272 pages
3.81
189 ratings
Writing
Science
Psychology
Wider Than the Sky Summary
Wider Than the Sky
The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness
by Gerald M. Edelman 2004 224 pages
3.65
421 ratings
Science
Philosophy
Psychology
The Eureka Factor Summary
The Eureka Factor
Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain
by John Kounios 2014 290 pages
3.87
356 ratings
Psychology
Science
Business
Why Brains Need Friends Summary
Why Brains Need Friends
The Neuroscience of Social Connection
by Ben Rein 2025 256 pages
4.00
330 ratings
Psychology
Science
Self Help
How Your Brain Works Summary
How Your Brain Works
Inside the most complicated object in the known universe
by New Scientist 2017 240 pages
3.92
353 ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
The Decisive Moment Summary
The Decisive Moment
How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind
by lehrer-jonah 2009 294 pages
3.85
41k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Business
The Brain Summary
The Brain
A User's Manual: A simple guide to the world's most complex machine
by Marco Magrini 2017 285 pages
4.12
500+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
The Strange Order of Things Summary
The Strange Order of Things
Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
by AntΓ³nio DamΓ‘sio 2017 336 pages
3.75
2k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
The Root of Thought Summary
The Root of Thought
Unlocking Glia--the Brain Cell That Will Help Us Sharpen Our Wits, Heal Injury, and Treat Brain Disease
by Andrew Koob 2009 186 pages
3.68
135 ratings
Science
Neuroscience
Psychology
The Deep Learning Revolution Summary
The Deep Learning Revolution
by Terrence J. Sejnowski 2018 352 pages
3.72
500+ ratings
Science
Artificial Intelligence
Technology
Your Brain on Love Summary
Your Brain on Love
The Neurobiology of Healthy Relationships
by Stan Tatkin 2013 6 pages
4.33
1k+ ratings
Relationships
Self Help
Psychology
The Nocturnal Brain Summary
The Nocturnal Brain
Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep
by Guy Leschziner 2019 368 pages
4.03
3k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
Brain Bugs Summary
Brain Bugs
How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives
by Dean Buonomano 2011 310 pages
3.80
2k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
The Embodied Mind Summary
The Embodied Mind
Cognitive Science and Human Experience
by Francisco J. Varela 1991 328 pages
4.14
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
Struck By Genius Summary
Struck By Genius
How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
by Jason Padgett 2014 256 pages
3.48
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Science
Biography
Being There Summary
Being There
Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
by Andy Clark 1996 292 pages
4.14
217 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
Deviate Summary
Deviate
The Science of Seeing Differently
by Beau Lotto 2017 352 pages
3.73
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life Summary
Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life
A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity are Revolutionizing our View of Human Nature
by Douglas T. Kenrick 2011 256 pages
3.56
500+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Evolution
The Neuropsychology of Anxiety Summary
The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
An Enquiry into the Functions of the Septo-Hippocampal System
by Jeffrey A. Gray 1982 448 pages
4.19
48 ratings
Psychology
Neuroscience
Science
Brain Sex Summary
Brain Sex
The Real Difference Between Men and Women
by Anne Moir 1989 256 pages
3.73
500+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Gender
The Embodied Mind Summary
The Embodied Mind
Understanding the Mysteries of Cellular Memory, Consciousness, and Our Bodies
by Thomas R. Verny 2021 258 pages
3.97
148 ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
The Fear Factor Summary
The Fear Factor
How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between
by Abigail Marsh 2017 302 pages
4.01
500+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
The Frontiers of Knowledge Summary
The Frontiers of Knowledge
What We Know about Science, History and the Mind
by A.C. Grayling 2021 432 pages
3.99
344 ratings
Science
Philosophy
History
Science of Consequences Summary
Science of Consequences
How They Affect Genes, Change the Brain, and Impact Our World
by Susan M. Schneider 2012 384 pages
4.02
280 ratings
Science
Psychology
Genetics
Your Brain on Food Summary
Your Brain on Food
How Chemicals Control Your Thoughts and Feelings
by Gary L. Wenk 2010 200 pages
3.42
500+ ratings
Science
Health
Psychology
How to Change a Memory Summary
How to Change a Memory
One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past
by Steve Ramirez 2025 256 pages
4.26
35 ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
The Persuasion Code Summary
The Persuasion Code
How Neuromarketing Can Help You Persuade Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime
by Christophe Morin 2018 356 pages
3.84
120 ratings
Business
Psychology
Neuroscience
The New Science of the Mind Summary
The New Science of the Mind
From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology
by Mark Rowlands 2010 249 pages
3.69
45 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
Phi Summary
Phi
A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
by Giulio Tononi 2012 386 pages
3.89
500+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Psychology
The kingdom of infinite space Summary
The kingdom of infinite space
a fantastical journey around your head
by Raymond Tallis 2008 324 pages
3.38
151 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
Aping Mankind Summary
Aping Mankind
Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity
by Raymond Tallis 2011 400 pages
4.04
213 ratings
Philosophy
Science
Psychology
I Heard There Was a Secret Chord Summary
I Heard There Was a Secret Chord
Music as Medicine
by Daniel J. Levitin 2024 416 pages
3.83
1k+ ratings
Music
Science
Psychology
Brain Summary
Brain
An Owner's Guide
by Elizabeth R. Ricker 2025 208 pages
4.12
52 ratings
Neuroscience
Science
Health
Taming Your Amygdala Summary
Taming Your Amygdala
Brain-Based Strategies to Quiet the Anxious Mind
by Catherine M. Pittman 2022 168 pages
4.33
93 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Health
Mother Brain Summary
Mother Brain
How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood
by Chelsea Conaboy 2022 368 pages
3.59
1k+ ratings
Parenting
Science
Psychology
The Ideological Brain Summary
The Ideological Brain
A Radical Science of Susceptible Minds
by Leor Zmigrod 2025 292 pages
3.65
500+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Politics
Reading in the Brain Summary
Reading in the Brain
The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention
by Stanislas Dehaene 2007 388 pages
4.06
2k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
Mirrors in the Brain Summary
Mirrors in the Brain
How Our Minds Share Actions and Emotions
by Giacomo Rizzolatti 2006 256 pages
3.87
190 ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
The Great Nerve Summary
The Great Nerve
The New Science of the Vagus Nerve and How to Harness Its Healing Reflexes
by Kevin J. Tracey 2025 320 pages
4.00
435 ratings
Health
Science
Self Help
Forgetting Summary
Forgetting
The Benefits of Not Remembering
by Scott A. Small 2021 240 pages
3.76
500+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Health
Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite Summary
Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite
Evolution and the Modular Mind
by Robert Kurzban 2010 288 pages
3.95
500+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Evolution
Why Therapy Works Summary
Why Therapy Works
Using Our Minds to Change Our Brains
by Louis Cozolino 2015 288 pages
4.21
500+ ratings
Psychology
Counselling
Neuroscience
The Neuroscience of Human Relationships Summary
The Neuroscience of Human Relationships
Attachment And the Developing Social Brain
by Louis Cozolino 2006 464 pages
4.32
500+ ratings
Psychology
Neuroscience
Science
The Suggestible Brain Summary
The Suggestible Brain
The Science and Magic of How We Make Up Our Minds
by Amir Raz 2024 210 pages
3.67
143 ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
Understanding Pain Summary
Understanding Pain
Exploring the Perception of Pain
by Fernando Cervero 2012 188 pages
3.90
72 ratings
Neuroscience
Health
Medical
The Pocket Guide to Neuroscience for Clinicians Summary
The Pocket Guide to Neuroscience for Clinicians
by Louis Cozolino 2020 336 pages
4.49
49 ratings
Neuroscience
Science
Psychology
The Man Who Tasted Words Summary
The Man Who Tasted Words
A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses
by Guy Leschziner 2022 336 pages
4.04
500+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
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