Interesting Articles
- Language of the Brain pdf
- Optogenetics: Controlling the Brain with Light pdf
- Small, Furry ... and Smart pdf
- Mirror Tracing Activity pdf
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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