Re:Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same ...
by pas on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @07:09AM
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It's not a book, but a great infotainment lecture series by Robert Sapolsky (the intro to human biology course at Stanford, 2010)
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D
And of course cites Sack, and a lot of amazing research/studies/results.
The caveat is that some results are not that solid, and he mentions priming, which we know does not replicate.
Phantoms in the Brain by V S Ramachandran - a book about how the brain organises itself in bizarre edge cases. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes us Human. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes us Human by the same author is also worth reading.
Admissions by Henry Marsh - An experienced neurosurgeon's account of how his job has changed over the decades. Really interesting discussion of what's important and how people react in a real crisis.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks. More of a collection of interesting curiousities but does an amazing job of humanising the discussion of brain.