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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
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Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry
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The Brain: The Story of You
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David Eagleman (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 22,337 ratings
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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The River of Consciousness
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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Your Brain, Explained: What Neuroscience Reveals About Your Brain and its Quirks
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Marc Dingman (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 601 ratings
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Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
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Dean Burnett (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 10,742 ratings
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Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
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The Stress-Proof Brain: Master Your Emotional Response to Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity
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Melanie Greenberg (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 1,296 ratings
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The Ancient Origins of Consciousness: How the Brain Created Experience
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Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence--A Complete Guide to the Groundbreaking Wheel of Awareness Meditation Practice
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Daniel J. Siegel (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 1,238 ratings
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Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience: A Beginner's Guide
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The Science of Sin: Why We Do The Things We Know We Shouldn't
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain―How We Create Emotions Through Brain, Body, and Culture
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Lisa Feldman Barrett (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 12,618 ratings
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The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars: A Neuropsychologist's Odyssey Through Consciousness
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Paul Broks (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 288 ratings
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The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
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Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
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Daniel Goleman (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 5,748 ratings
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The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity
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Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
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Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
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Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
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Mind – A Journey to the Heart of Being Human
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Daniel J. Siegel (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 409 ratings
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Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death
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Other Minds
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What It's Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience
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3.64 avg rating — 1,095 ratings
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
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Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 83,132 ratings
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Neurocomic: A Comic About the Brain
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Matteo Farinella (Illustrator)
3.60 avg rating — 2,669 ratings
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The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time
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Alex Korb (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 6,497 ratings
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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4.28 avg rating — 17,439 ratings
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HALFWAY UP THE MOUNTAIN
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Hallucinations
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The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
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Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs
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Touching a Nerve: Our Brains, Our Selves
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Power Up Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Enlightenment
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4.08 avg rating — 480 ratings
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The Autistic Brain: Helping Different Kinds of Minds Succeed
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High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
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Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience
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3.62 avg rating — 843 ratings
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Neurology: The Amazing Central Nervous System
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April Chloe Terrazas (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
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3.89 avg rating — 937 ratings
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How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain
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3.97 avg rating — 7,558 ratings
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Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
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3.67 avg rating — 660 ratings
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The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
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Tali Sharot (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 1,957 ratings
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Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Tales of Life and Death on the Neurology Ward
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Allan H. Ropper (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 5,704 ratings
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The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep
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Guy Leschziner (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 3,643 ratings
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
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Sam Kean (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 13,561 ratings
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NeuroLogic: The Brain's Hidden Rationale Behind Our Irrational Behavior
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The Reader's Brain: How Neuroscience Can Make You a Better Writer
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Yellowlees Douglas (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 95 ratings
score: 87,
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The Left Brain Speaks, the Right Brain Laughs: A Look at the Neuroscience of Innovation Creativity in Art, Science Life
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Ransom Stephens (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 155 ratings
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The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity
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4.20 avg rating — 5,653 ratings
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NeuroWisdom: The New Brain Science of Money, Happiness, and Success
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The Mind of God: Neuroscience, Faith, and a Search for the Soul
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This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
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Siddhartha's Brain: Unlocking the Ancient Science of Enlightenment
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Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
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Daniel J. Siegel (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 4,373 ratings
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MIND (Best of Edge Series)
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
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How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation
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The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science
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Tastes Like Music: 17 Quirks of the Brain and Body
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Bullets and Brains
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
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Rick Hanson (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 5,364 ratings
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Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own
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Helen Thomson (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 4,577 ratings
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
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Unfuck Your Brain: Getting Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers with science (5-Minute Therapy)
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Calm Clarity: How to Use Science to Rewire Your Brain for Greater Wisdom, Fulfillment, and Joy
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3.66 avg rating — 147 ratings
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The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind
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Welcome to Your Child's Brain: How the Mind Grows from Conception to College
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The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides
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The Craving Brain: Science, Spirituality and the Road to Recovery
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Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease
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Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal
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4.04 avg rating — 1,324 ratings
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The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
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Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
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Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
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How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation
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The Anxiety Code: Deciphering the Purposes of Neurotic Anxiety
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Roger Di Pietro (Goodreads Author)
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Malpractice: A Neurosurgeon Reveals How Our Health-Care System Puts Patients at Risk
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Fire Up Your Writing Brain: How to Use Proven Neuroscience to Become a More Creative, Productive, and Successful Writer
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Susan Reynolds (Goodreads Author)
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Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains
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The Rabbi’s Brain: Mystics, Moderns and the Science of Jewish Thinking
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The Aging Brain: Proven Steps to Prevent Dementia and Sharpen Your Mind
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