Fun Brain Books

 

Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, by Robert Sapolsky 2004

Review by Amanda Fisher '10

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. 2009

Review by Ashley Baumann

Head Cases; Stories of Brain Injury and its Aftermath by Michael Paul Mason., 2008.

Review by Cathryn Nelson

An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison 1996

Review by Chelsea Zamora

Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer 2001

Review by Chad Kumm

The Family That Couldn’t Sleep: A medical mystery by D. T. Max 2007

Review by Erin Watt

Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body by Jennifer Ackerman 2007

Review by Erin Eppler

Change your brain change your life by Daniel Amen 1999

Review by Mark Hartman

The Feeling of What Happens: Body and emotion in the making of consciousness by Antonio Damasio. 1999.

Review by Amanda Sati

Fixing My Gaze by Susan Barry 2009

Review by Melissa Mackley

The Synaptic Self, How Our Brains Become Who We Are by Joseph LeDoux Ph. D 2003

Review by Nick Murray

Changing Minds Everywhere: "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by Norman Doidge, M.D 2007

Review by Nicole Soiseth