Books on Neuroscience.

[Dylab]

After reading Francis Crick's The Astonishing Hypothesis. I started to become more interested in the different areas of Neuroscience. Do you guys have any suggestions for books on the subject?

 

[Piscivore]

You can get a free one here- it is basic, but pretty good.

 

[Chris Haynes]

Well lately I've read stuff by Oliver Sacks... which is really interesting. Especially The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist from Mars (actual titles may vary because I am doing this from memory). I recently finished Seeing Voices and am presently reading Migraine

Now for NON-Sacks stuff there is an author local to me who has written about neurology. The only book I have read is a journey into neurology while discussing the case of a fellow with epilepsy:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201483378/

And then for fun one of my favorite websites (again it is local to me):
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/introb.html

Which should have a bibliography of good books.

 

[Bikewer]

A couple I've found instructive:

The Three-Pound Universe

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_1/103-2062847-6582227?v=glance&s=books

And another called The Origins of Conciousness. Unfortunately, I can't find it on Amazon or the local library, I may have the title wrong. (and I can't remember the author...Senility)

 

[Chris Haynes]

...And another called The Origins of Conciousness. Unfortunately, I can't find it on Amazon or the local library, I may have the title wrong. (and I can't remember the author...Senility)

I have heard of that too... at first I thought it was by Stephen Pinker ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393318486/ )... but I am also in error... so I bounced around Amazon for a bit (it is not even by Richard Dawkins) - and also found nothing. Though it sounds a bit like what Dawkins or William Calvin would write (human evolution, Calvin does brain evolution stuff).

 

[Bikewer]

it's drivin' me nuts. I have the author's name on the tip of my tongue, but it won't come.

BTW, Pinker's The Blank Slate is excellent stuff as well. Not exactly neuroscience, but very interesting.


Victory! I knew if I beat myself about the brain long enough I'd get it.

It's the EVOLUTION of Consciousness, by Ornstien

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_2/103-2062847-6582227?v=glance&s=books

Excellent stuff, and guite funny in places as well.