Neuroscience & Society - readings for Spring Term.

If you are taking neuroscience & society with me next term, then these are the books we will be reading together.

Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind Paperback by Nikolas Rose (Author) , Joelle M. Abi-Rached (Author) ; ISBN-13: 978-0691149615

Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience [Hardcover] Sally Satel (Author), Scott O. Lilienfeld (Author) ISBN-13: 978-0465018772

Neuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain Paperback by Nicolas Langlitz (Author) ISBN-13: 978-0520274822

Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus [Hardcover] Erika Dyck (Author) ISBN-13: 978-0801889943

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference Paperback by  

Cordelia Fine (Author) ISBN-13: 978-0393340242

Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry (Cambridge Studies in Society and the Life Sciences) [Paperback] Andrew Lakoff (Author) ISBN-13: 978-0521546669

Appropriate research paper topics might include: 

• reverse engineering the brain; 
• the neurochemical vs the neuro-tech self in sports medicine; 
• brain-technology interfaces in treatment of neurological diseases; 
• mathematical and statistical translations in neuroscience; 
• the origins of computational neuroscience, 1930-2000;
• neurological determinism and contemporary jurisprudence;
• psychometric thinking in neuroscience;
• virtual reality and visual neuroscience;
• the social construction of concussion disorders;
• the history of imaging technology;
• cold war politics, militarism, and brain science
• a biography of any neurological disease