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Bibliography

This is not a comprehensive account of every book that contributed to the facts and ideas contained within Sort Your Brain Out, but these excellent, eye-opening books nonetheless come highly recommended and are all highly relevant to the subjects covered. List updated ahead of publication of 2nd edition on 13th April 2021

 

Aiken, M. The Cyber Effect, London: John Murray, 2017

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Ariely, D. Predictably Irrational, London: HarperCollins, 2008

 

Arrowsmith-Young, B. The Woman Who Changed Her Brain, London: Square Peg, 2012

 

Blackburn, E. and Epel, E. The Telomere Effect, London: Orion Spring, 2017

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Bond M. The Power Of Others, London: Oneworld, 2015

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Brockman, J. (ed.) Is The Internet Changing The Way You Think?, New York: HarperCollins, 2011

 

Buchanan, A. Better Than Human, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011

 

Christakis, N. A. and Fowler, J. H. Connected, London: HarperPress, 2010

 

Doidge, N. The Brain That Changes Itself, London: Penguin, 2007

 

Duhigg, C. The Power Of Habit, London: Random House, 2013

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Greenfield, S. Tomorrow’s People, London: Penguin, 2004

 

Kahneman, D. Thinking, Fast and Slow, London: Penguin, 2012

 

Klingberg, T. The Overflowing Brain, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009

 

Lehrer, J. Proust Was A Neuroscientist, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007

 

Lehrer, J. The Decisive Moment, Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2009

 

Lehrer, J. Imagine, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012

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Lieberman, M. D. Social - Why Our Brains Are Wired To Connect, Oxford: OUP, 2015

 

Martin, P. Counting Sheep, London: Flamingo, 2003

 

Montague, R. Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect, London: Penguin, 2007

 

Mosconi, L. Brain Food, London: Penguin Life, 2019

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Nutt, D. Drugs Without The Hot Air, Cambridge: UIT, 2012

 

Pentland, A. Social Physics, New York: Penguin, 2015

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Rose, H. and Rose, S. Genes, Cells and Brains, London: Verso, 2012

 

Rose, S. Lifelines - Life Beyond the Gene, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997

 

Sharot, T. The Optimism Bias, London: Constable and Robinson, 2012

 

Thaler, R. H. and Sunstein, C. R. Nudge, London: Penguin, 2009

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Turkle, S. Alone Together, New York: Basic Books, 2017

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Walker, M. Why We Sleep, London: Penguin, 2018

 

 

FURTHER READING

 

(the following books were all discovered since writing our book but are all highly relevant and brilliantly written)

 

Davies, J. Cracked – Why Psychiatry Is Doing More Harm Than Good, London: Icon Books Ltd, 2013

 

Hurley, D. Smarter – the New Science of Building Brain Power, New York: Hudson Street Press, 2013

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