The best books about the brain start with the basics, including the key parts, functions, and processes of the brain. These foundations lay the groundwork for further understanding the mind.

C rosswords, Sudoku, twisty crimes to solve, seek-and-finds, or memory exercises are all examples of mental workouts that can ...

Neurologist Pria Anand recounts curious tales of the workings of the human mind in an elegant debut that is being compared to ...

The best of the brain books in 2016 featured deception, empathy, placebos, gaming, algorithms, microbes and that little voice in your head. Whether touching on psychology, neuroscience or the mind ...

COOK: In the book, you describe a part of the brain as the “letterbox.” ... Thus, teachers and teaching methods should pay more attention to the existing structure of the child's mind and brain.

We make the world our whiteboard—an extra brain lobe. Notebooks, sketch pads, ... In her book “The Extended Mind,” science writer Annie Murphy Paul takes on each in turn.

This view lies at the heart of Sharon Begley’s Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain, the second recent chronicle of a Mind & Life conference.A year after the MIT encounter, Mind & Life XII convened in ...