Stories
- Article
Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
- Article
The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
- Book extract
The shape of thought
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.
- Podcast
Hope
In the first episode of our podcast series ‘Hello Happiness’, Bidisha explores our emotions – focusing on hope – with a diverse range of scientists, historians, artists and activists.
Catalogue
- Books
Emanuel Swedenborg : a neuroscientist before his time / Charles G. Gross.
Gross, Charles G.Date: 1997- Books
Proust was a neuroscientist / Jonah Lehrer.
Lehrer, Jonah.Date: 2007- Books
Memoirs of an addicted brain : a neuroscientist examines his former life on drugs / Marc Lewis.
Lewis, Marc D. (Marc David), 1951-Date: [2011], ©2011- Books
How to be human : the manual / a monk, a neuroscientist, and me.
Wax, Ruby, 1953-Date: 2018- Books
Think smart : a neuroscientist's prescription for improving your brain's performance / Richard Restak.
Restak, Richard, 1942-Date: 2009