Interesting Articles

Recommended Books

Textbooks
Neuroscience, 5th Edition Purves et al.
The perfect textbook for those starting out in the field. Many of the figures we use in lectures are from this book, and it is well-organized.
Principles of Neuroscience Kandel et al.
The most comprehensive textbook of the field, and the newest edition has finally arrived. It can be a bit unwieldy for the novice though.
General Reading
A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness V.S Ramachandran
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks
An Anthropologist on Mars
Musicophilia
The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life Joseph LeDoux
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
In Search of Memory Eric Kandel
An autobiography that is also an excellent history of the molecular era of neuroscience.
Brains: How they Seem to Work Dale Purves
Advanced Reading
Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems Peter Dayan & Larry Abbott
Rhythms of the Brain György Buzsáki
Corticonics: Neural Circuits of the Cerebral Cortex M. Abeles

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