November 2000 Issue Bryan Appleyard The Owl of Minerva Flies at Dusk Man, Beast and Zombie: What Science Can and Cannot Tell Us About Human Nature By Kenan Malik LR
August 2023 Issue Michael Eisen Taming the Black Dog Breaking Through Depression: New Treatments and Discoveries for Healing By Philip Gold
June 2023 Issue Paul Broks Dark Side of the Brain Travellers to Unimaginable Lands: Dementia, Carers and the Hidden Workings of the Mind By Dasha Kiper LR
September 2022 Issue Salley Vickers Meeting of Minds And Finally: Matters of Life and Death By Henry Marsh Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology By A J Lees
April 2022 Issue Raymond Tallis Left-Thinking People The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World By Iain McGilchrist
February 2022 Issue Sue Stuart-Smith Fatal Distraction Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention By Johann Hari LR
December 2019 Issue Cathy Gere All in the Brain? Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness By Anne Harrington LR
November 2018 Issue Jonathan Kaplan All in the Genes? Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are By Robert Plomin LR
August 2000 Issue A C Grayling Naked at a Party The Private Life of the Brain By Susan A Greenfield LR
September 2017 Issue Adrian Woolfson Raising Awareness Into the Grey Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death By Adrian Owen LR
February 2000 Issue A C Grayling All You Need To Know The Feeling of What Happens: Body, Emotion and the Making of Consciousness By Antonio Damasio LR
December 2016 Issue John Cornwell It’s All in Your Head A Day in the Life of the Brain: The Neuroscience of Consciousness from Dawn Till Dusk By Susan Greenfield LR
October 2016 Issue Adrian Barnett Clever Claws Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? By Frans de Waal Bird Brain: An Exploration of Avian Intelligence By Nathan Emery LR
December 2015 Issue Anil Ananthaswamy Inner Worlds NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter about People Who Think Differently By Steve Silberman In a Different Key: The Story of Autism By John Donvan & Caren Zucker LR
April 2003 Issue A C Grayling Brain Matters Nature Via Nurture: The Origin of the Individual By Matt Ridley The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain By Simon Baron-Cohen LR
November 2003 Issue Chandak Sengoopta Passions of the Mind Fugitive Minds: On Madness, Sleep and other Twilight Afflictions By Antonia Melechi LR
May 2004 Issue Chandak Sengoopta Brain Matters Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain- and How it Changed the World By Carl Zimmer LR
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