【內地出版篇】在這裡：神經科學相關的近年新書匯總【內地出版篇】

廢話都已在[內地出版篇]的開頭說了。這裡，直接來列出最近幾年，我個人覺得還不錯的、現在只有英文的（或是我只推薦英文原版的）、神經科學科普的書籍。

點擊書名就會跳轉相對應的亞馬遜的鏈接（因為豆瓣不全）。

和【內地篇】一樣，這裡列出的書籍，不少我還沒有看過（2016年12月25日）。之前我有提過，其實我本身是不看科普書的，但因為今年在出版《大腦使用指南》時，想參考一下，所以在英國購買了市面上已有的好評較高的（評價來自網路、書店或是導師同學）神經科學科普書，大多我都翻看了一下，它們正坐在書架上靜靜地望著我。

總的來說

現在和神經科學相關的書籍現在主要分兩大類型：

一、也是最多的，講各類神經疾病病例或是與大腦有關的疑難雜症。這類里又分兩種，一，就是Oliver Sachs為代表，作為醫生描述接觸過的病例，又分神經內科和神經外科。二，則是作者本身有過疾病史，書偏向為勵志感悟類型。這一大類往往讀起來像是小說，科普性較低，但故事性極高。

二、單純地想安利「大腦很有趣」的、走科學普及的書籍，這類中優秀作品必須是正兒八經的神經科學家（科學水平不到的，寫得再生動往往也讀著覺得很輕浮，而且漏洞出現較多）。但很遺憾的是，因為神經科學中科普性較高的且值得寫在書里的內容還是比較有限，所以基本上所有書，在某些章節無法避免地都有些重複性。

我個人只對第二類感興趣，所以先列第二類。

【第二類神經科學科普：「只是想把大腦安利給你。」】

The Brain: The Story of You 2016/04

by David Eagleman

這本書我已經在很多地方推薦過了，這裡必須要放在最開始。

David Eagleman可能是在世的最有名的神經科學科普作者。他不僅本身是一個非常成功的科學家，同時他還能把很複雜的問題解釋得非常清晰有趣。他基本每一章里都有那麼幾段，完全ｈｉｔ到我。有時候讀他的文章，（這麼講雖然大言不慚）我有種「我也會寫下這樣的文字，但還需要40年」的感覺。有幾章，我曾經從和他類似的角度寫過類似的東西。譬如說第一章中的幼兒發育，他也講了羅馬尼亞嬰兒工廠的故事（《兒童節的不快樂——大腦發育和關愛》）。但我在寫這篇文章的時這本書還未出版。

總的來說，這本書是我最為推薦的神經科學科普書，沒有之一。

The Idiot Brain: A Neuroscientist Explains What Your Head is Really Up To (2016/02)

by Dean Burnett

Why do you lose arguments with people who know MUCH LESS than you? Why can you recognise that woman, from that thing . . . but cant remember her name? And why, after your last break-up, did you find yourself in the foetal position on the sofa for days, moving only to wipe the snot and tears haphazardly from your face?

Heres why: the idiot brain. For something supposedly so brilliant and evolutionarily advanced, the human brain is pretty messy, fallible and disorganised. For example, your memory is egotistical. No, really. Conspiracy theories and superstitions are the inevitable effects of a healthy brain. And alcohol can actually improve your memory.**

In The Idiot Brain, neuroscientist Dean Burnett tours our mysterious and mischievous grey (and white) matter. Along the way he explains the human brains imperfections in all their glory and how these influence everything we say, do and experience. Expertly researched and entertainingly written, this book is for anyone who has wondered why their brain appears to be sabotaging their life, and what on earth it is really up to.

這本書強烈推薦。我是在交完《大腦使用指南》書稿，給封面找設計靈感的時候，翻到這本今年年初才發的新書的。如果我能在出版之前《大》看到這本書，那麼可能水平就不會只是現在這樣了。不過，《大》的封面顏色就是來自這本書！

Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole 2016/1

by Allan Ropper (Author), Brian David Burrell (Author)

"What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this gripping and illuminating book, Dr Allan Ropper reveals the extraordinary stories behind some of the life-altering afflictions that he and his staff are confronted with at the Neurology Unit of Harvards Brigham and Womens Hospital. Neurologists diagnose and treat serious illnesses of the brain by combining the hard science of medical knowledge with the art of intuitive reasoning. The unique challenge they face is that their primary sources of information - the patients brains - are quite often altered, sometimes bizarrely, as a result of disease. Like Alice in Wonderland, Dr Ropper inhabits a place where absurdities abound: a sportsman who starts spouting gibberish; an undergraduate who suddenly becomes psychotic; a salesman who drives around and around a roundabout, unable to get off; a mother who has to decide whether a life locked inside her own head is worth living. How does one begin to treat such cases, to counsel people whose lives may be changed forever? How does one train the next generation of clinicians to deal with the moral and medical aspects of brain disease? Dr Ropper answers these questions by taking the reader into a world where lives and minds hang in the balance."

非常喜歡這本書，有種聰明人就會喜歡的感覺。（有點莫名其妙的評價）一看封面就知道，是神經科學科普屆中的一股清流。

The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World』s Leading Neuroscientists 2016/11

by Gary Marcus (Editor), Jeremy Freeman (Editor)

從導師那裡借了，但還沒有開始看。但我覺得肯定很不錯。這是多個神經科學家合寫的一本科普書，包括2014年醫學諾貝爾獲得者Moser夫婦的文章。

我很喜歡這種形式，眾人的精華更有看透。總覺得一個人寫十幾萬二十幾萬字，總是會有些水貨在裡面的。但多人團戰，會有種競爭在裡面，不同的節奏感和文風都會很很有趣。

突然發現我的師祖David Poeppel也是作者之一。

牛津出過一個系列裡面有三本和神經科學有關的書，比較老，2005年出的。

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

譬如說這本書：

The Brain: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) 2005/12

by Michael OShea (Author)

In this fascinating book, Michael OShea provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain research, and gives a sense of how neuroscience addresses questions about the relationship between the brain and the mind. Chapters tackle subjects such as brain processes, perception, memory, motor control and the causes of altered mental states. A final section discusses possible future developments in neuroscience, touching on artificial intelligence, gene therapy, the importance of the Human Genome Project, drugs by design, and transplants.

還有關於意識的，Susan Blackmore寫的。以前借過，但沒看完：

Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) 2005/3

Memory: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) 2008/11

30-Second Brain: The 50 most mind-blowing ideas in neuroscience, each explained in half a minute 2014/3

by Anil Seth (Editor)

Are we all at the mercy of our brain chemistry? Do you think that the amygdala and the hippocampus are fantastical sea monsters? What can an MRI scan tell us? Could you explain to dinner-party guests why we don』t giggle when we tickle ourselves? 30-Second Brain is here to fill your mind with the science of exactly what』s happening inside your head. Using no more than two pages, 300 words and an illustration, this is the quickest way to understand the wiring and function of the most complex and intricate mechanism in the human body. Discover how the networks of 90 billion nerve cells work together to produce perception, action, cognition and emotion. Explore how your brain defines your personality, and what it gets up to while you are asleep. Illustrated with mind-bending graphics and supported by biographies of pioneers in the field of neuroscience, it』s the book to get your grey matter thinking about your grey matter.

這本是我在寫這個書單的時候才看到的。每個問題都用300個單詞解答，我覺得這種長度才不會讓人無聊，很贊同。感覺不錯，應該是一本適合入門者的讀物。但問題都有些些教科書。已經下單了。

We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimers 2015/01

by Dick Swaab (Author)

這個書名我姑且翻譯為《我即我腦》我很喜歡。但特別討厭它的封面，太直接了，反而沒有任何的美感。

沒讀過，但有人評價說，看了這本在聚會中破冰就不愁了（意思是有段子好聊天）。我估計是信息量很大，同時有不少冷知識。

下面的都屬於這種【你聽說過大腦這個東西嗎】的書，但和上面這不同的是，下面的都圍繞一個特別的主題，譬如說吃、殭屍、音樂什麼的。這在科普書里非常常見，畢竟給個題目更好寫，也更好讓讀者在讀完之後感覺「確實解決了某個問題」。

幾本和音樂相關的

This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession　2008/5

by Daniel J. Levitin (Author)

導師又送了我一本做聖誕禮物。嘖，在這麼下去都快開書店了好么。這是第一本音樂神經科學的科普書，看到了就不要錯過，這本必須走一個。

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive explanation of how humans experience music and to unravel the mystery of our perennial love affair with it. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience. Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language. In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand it, and its role in human life.

You Are the Music: How Music Reveals What it Means to be Human 2014/3

by Victoria Williamson (Author)

這個比較general，音樂對於人類的重要性。但基本上都是在講對大腦的改變。

這兩本書的題目和封面都很雷同。我想著也是神經科學科普書的一大問題。基本上封面設計都很無趣。這兩本可以搭配Oliver Sachs的《Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain》。

Music, Mind and Education 1988/3

by Keith Swanwick (Author), Prof Keith Swanwick (Author)

這本書推薦給教音樂的老師或是對育兒感興趣的家長。

總之，音樂方面的英文書籍超多，亞馬遜上搜 music brain就好。這裡只列出我看過推薦的三本。

兩本和吃喝相關

Neurogastronomy 2011/11

by Gordon Shepherd

Shepherd是耶魯大學的神經科學教授，也是前任Journal Of Neuroscience的主編。

Gastronomy指的是烹飪法、美食學。這本書主要講的是和美食相關的神經科學，主要圍繞嗅覺和味覺做了很多科普介紹。我非常喜歡。《大》中的嗅覺部分有一篇就引用過這本書的前幾章。

Neuroenology: How the Brain Creates the Taste of Wine 2016/12

by Gordon Shepherd

其實也就是兩周前才上市的新書。這本書算是上一本的延續，這本主要討論和品酒有關的神經科學。買了還沒看。但Shepherd的水平不可能會差。

其他主題或風格

Picassos Brain: The basis of creative genius 2016/8

by Christine Temple

暫且把這本書翻譯為《畢加索的大腦：創造性天才的基礎》。創意從何而來？為什麼有些人比其他人更有創意？我想很多人都對這兩個問題充滿了好奇心（可以想像屏幕前有很多千反田）

這本書我剛剛才看到，已下單。

Where does creativity come from? Why are some people more creative than others? Eminent neuropsychologist Christine Temple navigates a wide range of factors from the hard science (visual memory, spatial ability, brain functions) to the environmental (the 『mad genius』 myth, and Gladwell』s 10,000 hours of practice). In each case she discusses how a particular theory weighs up in the case of Picasso and uses him to show how these factors can combine into true creative http://genius.In this book, she proposes 7 key causes of creativity to spell out the acronym: PICASSO (Playful mindset, Inhibition reduced, Curiosity, Attentional focus, Single-mindedness, Stoicism, Obsession). This is the first book to look at a multitude of traits in creativity, and nail down the key factors that matter (and also which ones don』t) to provide an overall picture of the fascinating area, linking the science to the personal.

The Fragile Brain: The strange, hopeful science of dementia 2016/11

by Kathleen Taylor (Author)

以『健忘』為核心來講大腦的書。剛剛下單，感覺很多人會想看，但可惜這本書的封面太不直觀了。要不是看了簡介，我肯定會錯過。

The Tell-Tale Brain: Unlocking the Mystery of Human Nature 2012/4

by V. S. Ramachandran (Author)

大腦是喜歡故事的；它喜歡聽故事，也喜歡講故事。可能就是這一點讓我們成為了今天的模樣。

這本書我沒看過，不太喜歡它的簡介，有點作的感覺。但封面看起還不錯呢。

Blame My Brain: the Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed 2013/05

by Nicola Morgan (Author)

青少年的大腦。很喜歡這名字。以後小孩叛逆不聽話，頂嘴可能會說「都怪大腦！」。呵呵。照打。但有文化的流氓很可怕，懂點神經科學的青少年估計也挺可怕的。

沒看過，不過感覺心理學佔大多數，屬於披著『神經科學』賣心理學的那種。

Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?: A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain 2016/9

by Timothy Verstynen (Author), Bradley Voytek (Author)

這本書我也是推薦很多次了。這個書名我譯為：《殭屍會夢見殭屍羊咩咩嗎？》，正如書名所示，主要是從神經科學角度來推測「如果殭屍真的存在，他們的大腦和我們正常的大腦有何不同」。

我很喜歡這種正兒八經的胡說八道。

Neurocomic 2013/10

by Matteo Farinella (Author, Illustrator)

這是一本漫畫書，比較少見。想法啊、故事啊都很好，但是我不喜歡它的畫風。我一直非常非常想出一本神經科學繪本。之前也有插畫家感興趣，但因為時間的問題總是沒有排上。如果有對這樣的內容感興趣的插畫家，可以與我私信。

【第一類神經科學科普：「醫生，你幫我看看我是不是腦子有病」】

下面基本書都和大腦疾病有關。有些是，像Oliver Sachs的《錯把妻子當帽子的男人》那樣，描述別人的病例。最近幾年，更多的是自己描述自己得病時的感受。

總的來說感覺這類書籍講的都不是大腦，而是人生。科普界的雞湯。

我對這類問題興趣缺缺，但相信會有人感興趣，舉幾個例子：

Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness 2013/9

by Susannah Cahalan (Author)

這本書頗受好評。我看英國亞馬遜書評好多說這本書是「這年最該讀的一本書」。但... 我對傳記類、故事性的不太感興趣。

Susannah Cahalan was a happy, clever, healthy twenty-four-year old. Then one day she woke up in hospital, with no memory of what had happened or how she had got there. Within weeks, she would be transformed into someone unrecognizable, descending into a state of acute psychosis, undergoing rages and convulsions, hallucinating that her father had murdered his wife; that she could control time with her mind. Everything she had taken for granted about her life, and who she was, was wiped out.

This is Susannahs story of her terrifying descent into madness and the desperate hunt for a diagnosis, as, after dozens of tests and scans, baffled doctors concluded she should be confined in a psychiatric ward. It is also the story of how one brilliant man, Syria-born Dr Najar, finally proved - using a simple pen and paper - that Susannahs psychotic behaviour was caused by a rare autoimmune disease attacking her brain. His diagnosis of this little-known condition, thought to have been the real cause of devil-possessions through history, saved her life, and possibly the lives of many others. Cahalan takes readers inside this newly-discovered disease through the progress of her own harrowing journey, piecing it together using memories, journals, hospital videos and records. Written with passionate honesty and intelligence, Brain on Fire is a searingly personal yet universal book, which asks what happens when your identity is suddenly destroyed, and how you get it back.

The New Me: My Journey Back From Traumatic Brain Injury 2015/10

by Hugh Smith (Author)

一句話總結：這個人中風了，然後他又恢復了。

The Tale of the Duelling Neurosurgeons 2015/3

副標題：The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

by Sam Kean (Author)

這個有點偏神經外科史：神經外科的病例是如何幫助我們一步步了解大腦這個黑盒子的。

For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendous accidents, phantom limbs, Siamese twins - and see how the victims changed afterwards. In many cases their survival was miraculous, and observers marvelled at the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed. Parents suddenly couldnt recognise their children. Pillars of the community became pathological liars and paedophiles. Some people couldnt speak but could still sing. Others couldnt read but could write.

The stories of these people laid the foundations of modern neuroscience and, century by century, key cases taught scientists what every last region of the brain did. With lucid explanations and incisive wit, Sam Kean explores the brains secret passageways and recounts the forgotten tales of the ordinary individuals whose struggles, resilience and deep humanity made neuroscience possible.

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery 2014/10

by Henry Marsh (Author)

又是一本自傳。很有名，還的了好幾個獎。在Wellcome Trust的書店裡看到就買了。

【相關的其他推薦】

Human Evolution: Our Brains and Behavior 2016/11

其實不是神經科學，不過我覺得可以放在這裡。這是本進化心理學的科普書。下單了。

（突然感覺2016年末真的有好多關於大腦的新書啊，但我看 google trend，每到11月底到來年1月，大家對神經科學和大腦的搜索都會觸底，書商們為什麼會喜歡在這個時候發書呢？只是巧合吧？）

Adventures in Human Being 2016/2

by Gavin Francis (Author)

這本書並非神經科學ｏｎｌｙ，但第一章就是講大腦。對人體生理感興趣的，這本書可以一看。（我特別喜歡它的封面）

DK: The Psychology Book 2012/2

by Nigel Benson (Author), Catherine Collin (Author), Joannah Ginsburg (Author), Voula Grand (Author), Merrin Lazyan (Author), Marcus Weeks (Author), Sarah Tomley (Editor)

好吧，這個不是神經科學的，而是心理學的。DK的百科系列我有很多。心理學這本，很多人推薦過。基本上可以說的上心理學入門最佳讀物。如果你想用英語閱讀一些心理學讀物，建議買一本這個英文版的當做對照，熟悉一下英文的心理學辭彙。

個人推薦一個教學性的書，這本書是我的第一個導師Susan Evans（解剖學系主任）推薦給想記住大腦不同區域，但又不想看教科書的人，可以考慮這本書：（高中生或初中生應該也沒問題的喲~）

The Human Brain Coloring Book 2000/5

by Marian C. Diamond (Author), Arnold B. Scheibel (Author)

禮物推薦：大腦切片杯墊

之前在考慮給新書配小禮物的時候，找到了這個。我非常喜歡。明示暗示了好幾次，但現在還是沒有人送給我。╮(╯▽╰)╭ 英國亞馬遜有賣，22英鎊。其實也不貴，只是我喝水不需要杯墊，總覺得買這個有點雞肋。

收集了4個多小時，暫時就這麼多吧，有了我再來更，請大家收藏這篇專欄。

2017年第一篇文章，希望大家覺得還有點用。望大家新年多多看書喲！

思家 於 倫敦，2017年1月2日清晨