It engagingly presents basic neuroscience to help readers understand their own one-of-a-kind brain.

A neuroscience book that deepens our understanding of the brain’s mysterious secrets with thoughtful explanations.

I used to pick up neuroscience books automatically, then feel disappointed when they repeated familiar material. This one gave me a fresh stimulus. The brain shapes my thoughts and actions, but it is plastic and can change and expand. That helped me realize why my life is so complex and lets me experience both sweet and bitter things.

This is a neuroscience and cognitive-science approach to “Who am I?” Cognitive brain science is often tiring these days because success books expand, distort, and misuse it, much as they do quantum mechanics. Claiming something is scientific is far from making it scientific; science should be a rigorous system of precise mutual verification rather than personal trust in scientists. I wanted a straightforward, genuinely scientific account of neuroscience fundamentals, and found it here. Chantel

I’ve recently become interested in neuroscience and have been trying to read more. When I studied psychology, I leaned toward heredity in the debate over whether genes or environment shape personality and temperament. After having and raising children, I began to feel that assuming everything is genetic leaves no way to draw out their abilities and potential, and leads to defeatist thinking. Reading about brain plasticity taught me that brains differ and each is unique. I was interested to

Have you wondered why people can see the same thing but think about it differently? Beyond the general idea that people vary because of their environment and personality, this book explores how we understand and judge the world by focusing on the brain. It takes a different, brain-centered approach to individual traits: for example, which brain regions activate with different personalities and how the brain changes through learning. Simple tests help you learn more about your own brain.

I’ve been reading many neuroscience books about structure, sensation, perception, language, consciousness, chemicals, trauma, and other topics. The human brain is so complex, with so much still unknown, that we can’t yet form a detailed picture of any one area or a comprehensive overview. But these books have helped me vaguely infer shared themes and links between functions. This book, Finding My Brain, is by a University of Washington professor of psycholinguistics. I was interested because it

Compared with typical neuroscience books that define brain regions and neurotransmitters like a basic textbook, this feels more advanced: it closely explores internal and external stimuli and how the brain shapes personality and behavior. The brain remains mysterious to scientists, and neuroscience gradually investigates it. Without a brain able to respond in varied ways to internal and external changes, humans might be more predictable and less able to survive through evolution. Deeply