Bibliography

Books featured on the Brain Science Podcast

Here is a list (arranged alphabetically by author) of the books that have been feautured on the Brain Science Podcast. Click directly on the title to go to the BSP aStore (Amazon.com) We have also included links to the episode show notes, and to Audible.com (when available). Please consult the show notes for individual episodes for additional references. (NOTE: *indicates episode of Books and Ideas that was included in the BSP feed.)

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• Ariely, Dan, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (B&I 19*); Audible link.
  
• Bainbridge, David, Teenagers: A Natural History;  BSP Interview; and, Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain;  BSP 32.
• Begley, Sharon, Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves;  BSP 10; Audible link.
• Beilock, Sian, Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To; BSP Interview;  Audible link.
  
• Benedetti, Fabrizio, Placebo Effects: Understanding the Mechanisms in Health and Disease, and, The Patient's Brain: The Neuroscience Behind the Doctor-Patient Relationship;  BSP Interview.
• Blackmore, Susan, Consciousness: An Introduction;  BSP 13.
• Blakeslee, Sandra, The Body Has a Mind of its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better; BSP 21;  BSP Interview;  Audible link.
• Brizendine, Louann, The Female Brain; BSP Interview;  Audible link.
• Brown, Stuart, Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorate the Soul;  BSP Interview.
• Burton, Robert A., On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not;  BSP 42;  BSP Interview.
• Buzsaki, Gyorgy, Rhythms of the Brain;  BSP Interview.
• Churchland, Patricia, Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy; and, Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain;  BSP Interview;  and, Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality;  BSP Interview. 
• Crick, Francis, Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul;  BSP 5.
• Dennett, Daniel, Consciousness Explained;  and, Freedom Evolves;  BSP 13.
• Doidge, Norman, The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science;  BSP Interview;  Audible link.
• Dowling, John, The Great Brain Debate: Nature or Nurture?;  BSP 4.
• Eagleman, David, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain;  BSP Interview;  Audible link.
• Evans, Dylan, Emotion: The Science of Sentiment;  BSP 11;  Audible link
• Fields, R. Douglas, The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries About the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science;  BSP Interview;  Audible link.
• Frith, Chris, Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World;  BSP Interview.
• Gallistel, Randy, Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science Will Transform Neuroscience;  BSP Interview. 
• George, Daniel, and, Whitehouse, Peter, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis;  (B&I 36*);  Audible link.
• Gigerenzer, Gerd, Gut Feelings:The Intelligence of the Unconscious;  BSP 19;  Audible link.
• Gladwell, Malcolm, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking;  BSP 13;  Audible link.
• Goldberg, Elkhonon, The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind;  BSP 16; and, The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older;  BSP 17; BSP Interview.
• Greenspan, Stanley, and, Shanker, Stuart, The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans;  BSP 6;  BSP Interview.
• Hawkins, Jeff, On Intelligence;  BSP 2;  BSP 13;  BSP Interview;  Audible link.
• Herz, Rachel, The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell;  BSP Interview.
• Hood, Bruce, Supersense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable (B&I 34*). 
• Johnson, Steven, Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life;  BSP 1;  Audible link. 
• Kandel, Eric, In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind;  BSP 3.
• Kenneally, Christine, The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language; BSP 30.
• Koch, Christof, The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach;  BSP Interview.
• Lilienfeld, Scott, 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior;  BSP Interview. 
• Lynch, Gary, Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence;  BSP Interview.
• Macknik, Stephen, and, Martinez-Conde, Susana, Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions;  BSP Interview;  Audible link.
• Medina, John, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School;  BSP Interview;  Audible link.
• Metzinger, Thomas, The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self; BSP Interview;  Audible link.
• Montague, Read, Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions;  BSP Interview.
• Murphy, Nancey, and, Brown, Warren, Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsiblity and Free Will;  BSP 53;  BSP Interview. 
• Nicholls, John, Martin, A., Wallace, Bruce, and, Fuchs, Paul, From Neuron to Brain: A Cellular and Molecular Approach to the Function of the Nervous System;  BSP 8.
• Nicolelis, Miguel, Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines--and How It Will Change Our Lives;  BSP 78;  BSP Interview;  Audible link.
• Noe, Alva, Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness;  BSP Interview;  Audible link.
• Panksepp, Jaak, Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions;  BSP Interview.
• Pfeifer, Rolf, How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence; BSP Interview.
• Ratey, John, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain;  BSP Interview;  Audible link; and, Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder From Childhood Through Adulthood;  BSP Interview;  Audible link.
• Rizzolatti, Giacomo, and, Sinigaglia, Corrado, Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions, Emotions, and Experience;  BSP 35.
• Rose, Steven, The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience;  BSP 9.
• Shapiro, Lawrence, Embodied Cognition (New Problems of Philosophy);  BSP Interview.
• Siegel, Daniel, The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being;  BSP Interview; Audible link.
• Sporns, Olaf, Networks of the Brain;  BSP Interview.
• Squire, Larry, and, Kandel, Eric, Memory: From Mind to Molecules;  BSP 12.
• Striedter, Georg, Principles of Brain Evolution;  BSP 47.
• Wolf, Maryann, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain;  BSP 24;  BSP Interview; Audible link.