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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
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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
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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
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