The library and information centre at The Brain Charity includes information on more than a hundred neurological conditions. Here are details of just eight of our books:
- Mark Bear 'Neuroscience: Exploring the brain'
Undergraduate textbook on the biology of the brain and the systems that underlie behaviour
* look in your local library - Norman Doidge 'The Brain that changes itself: Stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science'
Psychiatrist Dr Norman Doidge writes about neurologists and therapists applying techniques of neuro-plasticity, and the many people he’s met whose lives have been changed by these techniques
* look in your local library - Early Support Partnership 'Information for parents: Neurological disorders'
Information for parents on neuro-developmental disorders.
* look in your local library - Michael Merzenich 'Soft-wired: How the new science of brain plasticity can change your life'
Dr Michael Merzenich - a world authority on brain plasticity - explains how the brain rewires itself across the life-span, and how you can take control of that process to improve your life.
* we're the only library in this country! - Kenneth Nunn 'Who's Who of the Brain: A guide to its inhabitants, where they live and what they do'
Provides an immediate and entertaining way for anyone to gain a basic understanding or to refresh their knowledge of the inside workings of the brain.
* look in your local library - Oliver Sacks 'The man who mistook his wife for a hat'
This book is about what happens when things go wrong with parts of the brain most of us don’t know exist.
* look in your local library - Tom Solomon 'Roald Dahl's marvellous medicine'
Biodraphy of the writer Roald Dahl by The Walton Centre's Tom Solomon; Dahl suffered a head injury himself, and close family members had neurological problems.
* look in your local library - Rebecca Treays 'Understanding your brain'
Aimed at 10-13 year olds, this book uses cartoon illustrations and clear diagrams, and unravels the complexities of the biological and psychological workings of the brain.
* look in your local library
Image: Healthy adult human brain viewed from the side, tractography; Credit: Henrietta Howells, NatBrainLab
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