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
September 2017 Issue Adrian Woolfson Raising Awareness Into the Grey Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death By Adrian Owen 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
September 2008 Issue John Cornwell Plastic Fantastic The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge LR
August 2007 Issue David Cesarani Rotten Apples The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil By Philip Zimbardo LR
May 2012 Issue Theodore Dalrymple Pressing the Self-Destruct Button The Fix: How Addiction Is Invading Our Lives and Taking over Your World By Damian Thompson LR
June 2012 Issue Adam Zeman Only Connect Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are By Sebastian Seung LR
May 2013 Issue Charles Fernyhough Total Lack of Recall Permanent Present Tense: The Man with No Memory, and What He Taught the World By Suzanne Corkin
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