A few books on Neuroscience

natselrox · #1 by **natselrox** » Oct 18, 2011 7:23 pm

... I made a list of all the books ever reviewed on Nature Neuroscience. Here they are in chronological order. I tried posting the same in wordpress but it made an absolute mess of the list and the editing. Hope you can read it here. I have read a few and will post the reviews when I have more time. If you feel like reading any of the reviews (as they appeared in NN), feel free to PM me. And I have a few... erm... pdfs of the books as well. :shifty:

You know what to do!

Molecular and Cellular Approaches to Neural Development (Edited by W. M. Cowan, T. M. Jessell and S. L. Zipursky)

Brain, Vision and Memory: Tales of the History of Neuroscience by Charles G. Gross

Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks (Edited by James Anderson and Edward Rosenfeld)

The Mind's Past by Michael Gazzaniga

The First Steps in Seeing by R. W. Rodieck

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee

The Biophysics of Computation by Christof Koch

Fundamental Neuroscience (Edited by Michael J. Zigmond, Floyd E. Bloom, Story C. Landis, James L. Robertsand Larry R. Squire)

Evolving Brains by John Allman

Perceptual Neuroscience: The Cerebral Cortex by Vernon B. Mountcastle

The Biology of Violence: How Understanding the Brain, Behavior, and Environment Can Break the Vicious Cycle of Aggression by Debra Niehoff

Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner

Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology by Stephen E. Palmer

Brain Policy: How the New Neuroscience Will Change Our Lives and Our Politics by Robert H. Blank

An Anatomy of Thought by Ian Glynn

Spikes, Decisions, and Actions: Dynamical Foundations of Neuroscience by Hugh R. Wilson

Sensory Exotica: A World Beyond Human Experience by Howard Hughes

Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think by Marc D. Hauser

Dendrites (Edited by Greg Stuart, Nelson Spruston and Michael Hausser)

The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio R. Damasio

The New Cognitive Neurosciences by M. S. Gazzaniga

Elsevier's Encyclopedia of Neuroscience

Neurobiology of Mental Illness by D.S. Charney, E.J. Nestler and B.S. Bunney

What's Wrong with my Mouse? by Jacqueline N. Crawley

Mechanisms of Cortical Development by David J. Price and David J. Willshaw

Development of the Nervous System by Dan Harvey Sanes, Thomas A. Reh and William A. Harris

The scalpel and the butterfly: the war between animal research and animal protection by Deborah Rudacille

Behavioral Neurobiology: The Cellular Organization of Natural Behavior by Thomas J. Carew

The Dying of Enoch Wallace: Life, Death and the Changing Brain by Ira B. Black

The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness by J. Allan Hobson

Synapses (edited by W. Maxwell Cowan, Thomas C. Südhof and Charles F. Stevens)

Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience (by Eric J. Nestler, Steven E. Hyman and Robert C. Malenka)

From Conditioning to Conscious Recollection: Memory Systems of the Brain by Howard Eichenbaum and Neal J. Cohen

Visual Attention and Cortical Circuits (edited by Jochen Braun, Christof Koch and Joel L. Davis)

Methods in Genomic Neuroscience (edited by Hemin Chin and Steven O. Moldin)

Neurophilosophy of Free Will by Henrik Walter translated by Cynthia Klohr

Ion Channels of Excitable Membranes by Bertil Hille

Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems by Peter Dayan and Larry Abbott

An Introduction to Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Principles and Techniques by Richard B. Buxton

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: An Introduction to Methods by Peter Jezzard, Paul M. Matthews and Stephen M. Smith (Editors)

The Intact and Sliced Brain by Mircea Steriade

Computational Neuroscience of Vision by Edmund T. Rolls and Gustavo Deco

Probabilistic Models of the Brain (edited by Rajesh P.N. Rao, Bruno Olshausen and Michael Lewicki)

Microarrays for the Neurosciences: An Essential Guide (Edited by Daniel H. Geschwind and Jeffrey P. Gregg)

DNA Arrays: Technologies and Experimental Strategies (Edited by Elena V. Grigorenko)

Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are by Joseph LeDoux

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory: An Introduction by Howard Eichenbaum

The End of Stress as We Know It by Bruce McEwen with Elizabeth Norton Lasley

The Imitative Mind: Development, Evolution and Brain Bases (edited by Andrew N. Meltzoff and Wolfgang Prinz)

Neurological Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience (edited by Mark D'Esposito)

The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses by Chandler Burr

Brain Architecture: Understanding the Basic Plan By Larry W. Swanson

Why We See What We Do: An Empirical Theory of Vision by Dale Purves and Beau Lotto

Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy By Patricia Smith Churchland

Central Neural States Relating Sex and Pain By Richard J. Bodnar, Kathryn Commons & Donald W. Pfaff

Fundamental Neuroscience By Larry R Squire, Floyd E Bloom, Susan K McConnell, James L Roberts, Nicholas C Spitzer & Michael J Zigmond

Science in the Private Interest: Has the Lure of Profits Corrupted Biomedical Research? By Sheldon Krimsky

The Parallel Brain: The Cognitive Neuroscience of the Corpus Callosum (Editors: Eran Zaidel & Marco Iacoboni)

Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory Of Consciousness by Dan Lloyd

Sensory Transduction by Gordon L Fain

Pheromones and Animal Behaviour: Communication by Smell and Taste by Tristram D Wyatt

The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought by Gary Marcus

Active Vision: The Psychology of Looking and Seeing by John M Findlay and & Iain D Gilchrist

The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach by Christof Koch

Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain—and How it Changed the World by Carl Zimmer

The Neuroscience of Social Interaction: Decoding, Influencing, and Imitating the Actions of Others by Chris Frith and Daniel Wolpert

Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty (edited by Laura Bonetta)

The Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We Dream (by Andrea Rock)

The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge by Jean-Pierre Changeux (translated by M.B. Debevoise)

Rhythms of Life: The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing by Russell Foster & Leon Kreitzman

Neuroglia by Helmut Kettenmann & Bruce R Ransom

Brain and Visual Perception: The Story of a 25-Year Collaboration by David H Hubel & Torsten N Wiesel

Complex Worlds from Simpler Nervous Systems by Frederick R Prete

Principles of Brain Evolution by Georg F Striedter

The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness by Jack El-Hai

The Behavior of the Laboratory Rat: A Handbook with Tests by Ian Q Whishaw & Bryan Kolb

Imaging in Neuroscience and Development: A Laboratory Manual by Rafael Yuste & Arthur Konnerth

The Ethical Brain by Michael S Gazzaniga

The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore & Uta Frith

The War of the Soups and the Sparks by Elliot S Valenstein

Sensation & Perception by Jeremy M Wolfe, Keith R Kluender, Dennis M Levi, Linda M Bartoshuk, Rachel S Herz, Roberta L Klatzky & Susan J Lederman

The Neurology of Autism by Mary Coleman

Multiple Sclerosis as a Neuronal Disease by Stephen Waxman

Clinical Neuroscience by Kelly Lambert & Craig Kinsley

An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique by Steven J Luck

Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals about Morality by Laurence Tancredi

In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R Kandel

Neurobiology of Addiction by George F Koob and & Michel Le Moal

The Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience by Jamie Ward

Understanding Autism: from Basic Neuroscience to Treatment by S O Moldin & J L R Rubenstein

Biology of Aggression (Edited by Randy J Nelson)

Learning to Smell—Olfactory Perception from Neurobiology to Behavior by Donald A Wilson & Richard J Stevenson

Billy's Halo by Ruth McKernan

Rhythms of the Brain by György Buzsáki

The Hippocampus Book by Per Andersen, Richard Morris, David Amaral, Tim Bliss & John O'Keefe

Making Up the Mind by Chris Frith

An Introduction to Nervous Systems by Ralph J Greenspan

Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees by Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Masaki Tomonaga & Masayuki Tanaka

Why Choose This Book? How We Make Decisions by Read Montague

The Accidental Mind by David J. Linden

Microcircuits: The Interface Between Neurons and Global Brain Function by S Grillner & A M Graybiel

How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence by Rolf Pfeifer & Josh Bongard

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf

The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better by Sandra Blakeslee & Matthew Blakeslee

Music, Language, and the Brain by Aniruddh D Patel

Sex Differences in the Brain: from Genes to Behavior edited by Jill B Becker, Karen J Berkley, Nori Geary, Elizabeth Hampson, James P Herman & Elizabeth Young

Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience by Dale Purves, Elizabeth M Brannon, Roberto Cabeza, Scott A Huettel & Kevin S LaBar

Cognition, Brain and Consciousness: An Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience edited by Bernard J Baars & Nicole M Gag

Adult Neurogenesis (edited by Fred H Gage, Gerd Kempermann & Hongjun Song)

Hippocampal Place Fields: Relevance to Learning and Memory by Sheri J Y Mizumori

Head Cases by Michael Paul Mason

Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique by Michael S Gazzaniga

Welcome to Your Brain by Sandra Aamodt & Sam Wang

The Neurobiology of Learning and Memory by Jerry W Rudy

Learning & Memory by Howard Eichenbaum

Mirroring People by Marco Iacoboni

Loneliness by John T Cacioppo & William Patrick

The Confabulating Mind: How the Brain Creates Reality by Armin Schnider

The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen by Warwick Anderson

The Intelligent Movement Machine: An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System by Michael S A Graziano

The Castle of Dreams by Michel Jouvet, translated by Laurence Garey

Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience by C R Gallistel & Adam Philip King

Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions by Susan R Barry

Am I Making Myself Clear? A Scientist's Guide to Talking to the Public by Cornelia Dean

So you want to be a scientist? by Philip A Schwartzkroin

Statistics at the Bench: A Step-by-Step Handbook for Biologists by Martina Bremer & Rebecca W Doerge

Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience by Stephen S Hall

An Odyssey with Animals: A Veterinarian's Reflections on the Animal Rights & Welfare Debate by Adrian R Morrison

And here's another list of the more pop-sci books that I got from a group on FB. :thumbup:

How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work & Learn - Cathy N. Davidson

Harnessed - Mark Changizi

Proust was a Neuroscientist- Jonah Lehrer
How We Decide- Jonah Lehrer

The Compass of Pleasure- David J. Linden

The Believing Brain-Michael Shermer

Reality is Broken-Jane McGonigal

This is Your Brain on Music-Daniel J. Levitin

Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
The Mind's Eye- Oliver Sacks

My Stroke of Insight - Jill Bolte Taylor

Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely

The Tell-tale Brain by V.S. Ramachandran

Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine

The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life by Steven Johnson

23 Problems in Systems Neuroscience edited by Sejnowski and Hemmen

Mirrors in the Brain by Rizzolatti and Sinigaglia

An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks

A Day in the Frontal Lobe by Katrina Firlik

A Primate's Memoir by Robert Sapolsky

Tricks of the Mind by Derren Brown

Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane

Incognito by David Eagleman

Soul Made Flesh by Carl Zimmer

Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are by Joseph Ledoux

The Astonishing Hypothesis - The Scientific Search For The Soul by Francis Crick

Self Comes To Mind: Constructing The Conscious Brain by Antonio R. Damasio

Awakenings by Oliver Sacks

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason And The Human Brain by Antonio R. Damasio

Music, Language, And The Brain by Aniruddh D. Patel

The Feeling Of What Happens: Body And Emotion In The Making Of Consciousness by Antonio R. Damasio

How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer

Harnessed: How Language And Music Mimicked Nature And Transformed Ape To Man by Mark Changizi

Soul Dust : The Magic Of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey

Zero Degrees Of Empathy by Simon Baron-Cohen

The Number Sense: How The Mind Creates Mathematics by Stanislas Dehaene

Pardon the overlaps and the stupid ones in the list.

Happy reading!

Grace · #2 by **Grace** » Oct 20, 2011 4:17 am

You could probably challenge any medical University Hospital in the world to grant you a doctorate in neurology if you are not already an MD in neurology. Impressive library on one subject.

natselrox · #3 by **natselrox** » Oct 20, 2011 4:34 am

Hell no, Grace! I just compiled the list in case anyone's interested. I haven't read even half of the books listed there!

And MD, Neurology, hmm? Who wants that? As they say in the neurosurgery wards, "A good MRI machine can replace a hundred neurologists!"

Grace · #4 by **Grace** » Oct 21, 2011 5:41 am

Well, I haven't heard that one yet. But I do know that neurosurgeons make about 100 times what a neurologist makes, so you are right about the comment, "who wants that?" LOL -- true!

orpheus · #5 by **orpheus** » Oct 22, 2011 3:18 am

Nats, thank you for this!

Nice to see the Blakeslee's book on body maps; it's fascinating. Also Iacoboni's "Mirroring People" (which I'm reading right now).

This may not be the place for a personal review, but beware of Levitin's "This is Your Brain on Music". It enjoyed a lot of popularity when it came out, so a lot of people know about it. I'm not a neuroscientist, so I can't evaluate that aspect of his work. But I can say that a lot of what he writes about music is overly simplistic, and in some cases, just plain wrong. To me, it read as if he really didn't know much about it.

But to emphasize the positive, this is a stunning list you've put together!

natselrox · #6 by **natselrox** » Oct 22, 2011 3:50 am

I bought that Levitin book a few months ago, mostly being influenced by the hype. I'm yet to start it but I feel a bit put down by your remarks.

Another book on music that I have on my shelf right now is, "Music, Language and the Brain" By Aniruddh Patel. Judging by his talks on the subject, he might have something interesting to say...

"Musicophilia" by Sacks was nice to read though. :smile:

orpheus · #7 by **orpheus** » Oct 22, 2011 4:09 am

Sorry if I was too harsh, nats. I couldn't tell from the way you phrased it ("I feel a bit put down by your remarks") quite what you meant. I hope you didn't feel I was insulting you - far from it.

Anyway, I agree with you about "Musicophilia". And thank you for the tip about Aniruddh Patel. I didn't know about him; I'll check out the videos and look for his book.

natselrox · #8 by **natselrox** » Oct 22, 2011 4:15 am

orpheus wrote:Sorry if I was too harsh, nats. I couldn't tell from the way you phrased it ("I feel a bit put down by your remarks") quite what you meant. I hope you didn't feel I was insulting you - far from it.

Damn, second language! :lol:

It should have been "let down", isn't it? I meant that I'm not that interested in reading the book now.

Sorry for the goof up, Orph! :oops:

Anyway, I agree with you about "Musicophilia". And thank you for the tip about Aniruddh Patel. I didn't know about him; I'll check out the videos and look for his book.

orpheus · #9 by **orpheus** » Oct 22, 2011 4:22 am

natselrox wrote:
orpheus wrote:Sorry if I was too harsh, nats. I couldn't tell from the way you phrased it ("I feel a bit put down by your remarks") quite what you meant. I hope you didn't feel I was insulting you - far from it.

Damn, second language! It should have been "let down", isn't it? I meant that I'm not that interested in reading the book now.

Sorry for the goof up, Orph!

Anyway, I agree with you about "Musicophilia". And thank you for the tip about Aniruddh Patel. I didn't know about him; I'll check out the videos and look for his book.

Ah, "let down" is it, yes. And no need to damn your second language skills - yours are excellent. (And I admire anyone who can speak a second language at all. It's always been very hard for me.)

I may PM you about some of the others on your list, by the way. :cheers:

natselrox · **#10** by **natselrox** » Oct 22, 2011 4:34 am