Neuroscience Books
Neurobiology Essentials for Clinicians: What Every Therapist Needs to Know
$37.95 – Paperback / WW Norton & Co
This book presents an overview of the latest theories of affect regulation and focuses on how these theories work in clinical settings and how therapists can be taught to implement them. The notion of teaching and learning will... Buy or find out more→
Why Humans Like to Cry: Tragedy, Evolution, and the Brain
$32.95 – Hardback / Oxford University Press
Humans are unique in shedding tears of sorrow. We do not just cry over our own problems: we seek out sad stories, go to films and the theatre to see Tragedies, and weep in response to music. Buy or find out more→
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
$21.95 – Paperback / St Martin's Press
Bestselling author Shermer presents a comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished. Buy or find out more→
Principles of Brain Dynamics: Global State Interactions
$85.00 – Hardback / MIT Press Ltd
The consideration of time or dynamics is fundamental for all aspects of mental activity--perception, cognition, and emotion--because the main feature of brain activity is the continuous change of the underlying brain states... Buy or find out more→
The Dao of Neuroscience: Combining Eastern and Western Principles for Optimal Therapeutic Change
$29.95 – Hardback / WW Norton & Co
Neuroscientists have made huge advances in our understanding of the brain, and yet as scientists learn more, paradoxes arise. How does the brain a material substance relate to and produce nonmaterial thoughts and emotions? What... Buy or find out more→
Your Child from Birth to Eight
$29.99 – Paperback / Australian Council Educational Research (ACER)
This book provides an overview of early childhood development from birth to eight. While all children develop differently according to inheritance and environment, there are patterns which help parents to know what milestones they... Buy or find out more→
Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity
$34.00 – Paperback / Acumen Publishing Ltd
In a devastating critique Raymond Tallis exposes the exaggerated claims made for the ability of neuroscience and evolutionary theory to explain human consciousness, behaviour, culture and society. The belief that human beings... Buy or find out more→
The Brain: Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs
$39.95 – Hardback / Yale University Press
After several million years of jostling for ecological space, only one survivor from a host of hominid species remains standing: us. Human beings are extraordinary creatures, and it is the unprecedented human brain that makes... Buy or find out more→
Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
$36.95 – Hardback / MIT Press Ltd
What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bioelectrical activity in the brain? How can anything physical give rise to nonphysical, subjective, conscious states? Christof Koch has devoted much of his... Buy or find out more→
Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
$29.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
In this bold and groundbreaking book, renowned neuroscientist Sebastian Seung reveals the secrets of the human brain. Sebastian Seung is at the forefront of a revolution in neuroscience. He believes that our identity... Buy or find out more→
The Developing Mind, Second Edition: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are
$62.00 – Hardback / Guilford Publications
Presenting pioneering research on early relationships and the developing brain, this bestselling book put the field of interpersonal neurobiology on the map for many tens of thousands of clinicians, researchers, and students.... Buy or find out more→
Neuroscience-Based Cognitive Therapy: New Methods for Assessment, Treatment and Self-Regulation
$62.95 – Paperback / John Wiley & Sons Inc
Explores advances in neuroscience, showing how they can be applied in practice to improve the effectiveness of cognitive therapy for clients with a range of diagnoses including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders... Buy or find out more→
The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live - And How You Can Change Them
$29.99 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
This groundbreaking book by a pioneer in neuroscience brings a new understanding of our emotions - why each of us responds so differently to the same life events and what we can do to change and improve our emotional... Buy or find out more→
That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion
$32.95 – Hardback / WW Norton & Co
Why do we watch horror movies? What is the best way to persuade someone to quit smoking? Why are we more likely to buy a given itemif an attractive person has just touched it? And what on earth is the appeal of competitive... Buy or find out more→
Imagine: The Science of Creativity
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
"New York Times" best-selling author Jonah Lehrer shows us how we can all learn to be more creative. Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible... Buy or find out more→
Neuroanatomy and Neuroscience at a Glance
$47.95 – Paperback / John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Neuroanatomy and Neuroscience at a Glance provides a user-friendly introduction to the anatomy, biochemistry, physiology and pharmacology of the human nervous system within one, succinct, highly-illustrated volume. Buy or find out more→
The Lives of the Brain: Human Evolution and the Organ of Mind
$29.95 – Paperback / Harvard University Press
Presents an exploration of the evolution of brain based on the work in paleo-anthropology, brain anatomy and neuroimaging, molecular genetics, life history theory, and related fields. This book shows us the brain as a product of... Buy or find out more→
A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience
$27.95 – Paperback / MIT Press Ltd
Neuroscientist Charles Gross has been interested in the history of his field since his days as an undergraduate. A Hole in the Head is the second collection of essays in which he illuminates the study of the brain with... Buy or find out more→
The Good, the True, and the Beautiful: A Neuronal Approach
$45.00 – Hardback / Yale University Press
A guide to the most complex physical object in the living world: the human brain. Taking into account the brain research - morphological, physiological, chemical, and genetic - and placing these findings in the context of... Buy or find out more→