For so many, there was a book - often read ~20yo - that had a very big influence on their next steps. Do you have a book story like that? Do tell!
My book was Crick's "Astonishing Hypothesis". I got to feature my 30yo tattered copy in a recent photo shoot.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/summer-reading/from-reductionism-to-dynamical-systems-how-two-books-influenced-my-thinking-across-30-years-of-neuroscience/
My book was Crick's "Astonishing Hypothesis". I got to feature my 30yo tattered copy in a recent photo shoot.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/summer-reading/from-reductionism-to-dynamical-systems-how-two-books-influenced-my-thinking-across-30-years-of-neuroscience/
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Reading Bud Craig's "How Do You Feel" lead to me getting diagnosed at the NIH's Undiagnosed Disease Network (after 8 years undxed), and immediately helped me better understand the neural basis of the condition.
Also made me a lifelong fan of the insula! 🧠
For my book, @yaelniv.bsky.social generously provided a quote about the precision psychotherapy provides. We need more written down in this space, I think!
There is too little out there on psychotherapy and circuits. It literally results in a lot of professionals dismissing therapy as an optional luxury.
https://bsky.app/profile/bita137.bsky.social/post/3lbaelnqsmk2v
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805074581/afeelingfortheorganism10thaniversaryedition
(Double one: McClintock/Keller combo)
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Mind-Overrides-Experience/dp/0521835682/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262521123/vehicles/
Can't stand Watson who lived to make comments while doing the Human Genome project like let's get rid of all the ugly women...
Gardner, H. (1985). The mind's new science: A history of the cognitive revolution. Basic Books.
I'm an author and have just migrated from X to here. But it feels a bit lonely over here without friends.
Would you be my friend? Please hit the 'follow' key for me :-)
Gleick is active on Mastodon. I once posted, "Raise your hand if you read Chaos and it changed your life". Literally dozens of professors and engineers responded with stories of reading it as a life guard in high school and such. He inspired a lot with that book.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374715236/artificialintelligence
Gratitude for sharing The Recursive Universe. I didn't know it.
More recently, Joe and his book Anxious had a big influence on me (including helping me to redirect my entire research program to study mood!).
It’s great for both specialists and non-specialists to digest where the AD field has faced limitations and it critiques the amyloid cascade hypothesis. Points to what we can do next.
I haven’t reread it since, weary of finding too many aspects in which I might have been too naïve… maybe it’s time to embrace this change though!
Translated by Burton Watson
Published by: Columbia University Press
The 2nd is a more recent read: Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle. It made me realize (remember?!) at ~40 that serious science is slow & thinking takes time.
I'm not sure we've moved beyond GED.
https://speakingofresearch.com/2012/03/23/of-what-use/
https://archive.org/details/vehiclesexperime00brai
http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/ai/ahuman-pdf-only/biological/1995-The-Evolution-of-Neocortex-Ideas-Mountcastle.pdf
https://www.jblearning.com/catalog/productdetails/9781284211283?srsltid=AfmBOoqKH2zHoX6Er1K9fJ-zXj_qAB1qhUiOQmgsZlms01pj1SbvGIxi