Editors Reads

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Neuroscience

11 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.

11 posts

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Where to Start with Anna Lembke: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Anna Lembke — how to approach Dopamine Nation, her essential book on addiction and pleasure in the modern world. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Annie Murphy Paul: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Annie Murphy Paul — how to approach The Extended Mind, her synthesis of research on cognition beyond the brain. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Bessel van der Kolk: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Bessel van der Kolk — how to approach The Body Keeps the Score, his essential book on trauma. A complete reading guide to the trauma researcher.

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Where to Start with Charles Duhigg: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Charles Duhigg — whether to begin with The Power of Habit or Supercommunicators. A complete reading guide to the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

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Where to Start with Matthew Walker: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Matthew Walker — how to approach Why We Sleep, his essential book on sleep science. A complete reading guide to the British neuroscientist's work.

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Where to Start with Norman Doidge: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Norman Doidge — how to approach The Brain That Changes Itself, his landmark account of neuroplasticity that transformed public understanding of the brain's capacity for change. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Oliver Sacks: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Oliver Sacks — whether to begin with The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, or his later memoirs. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Robert M. Sapolsky: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Robert M. Sapolsky — how to approach Behave, his landmark synthesis of biology, neuroscience, and evolution as a unified explanation of human behaviour. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Robert Sapolsky: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Robert Sapolsky — how to approach Determined, his essential argument for determinism and life without free will. A complete reading guide.

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Best Books About the Brain and Mind: Essential Reading in Neuroscience

The best books about the brain and mind — from The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat to The Body Keeps the Score and Being Mortal. Essential neuroscience reading.

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12 Best Psychology Books of All Time (Expert Ranked)

The best psychology books ever written — from Freud to Kahneman. Our experts ranked 12 essential psychology books that will fundamentally change how you understand the human mind.

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