Review: Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century
User Review - Kerfe - GoodreadsAnother book I took out of the library for its illustrations--from drawings of the brain as imagined by Galen in the 2nd century to the latest brain-imaging technology, Schoonover provides a visual ... Read full review
Review: Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century
User Review - Melissa Sherowski - Goodreadsawesome and inspiring. much more than a coffee table book full of pretty pictures. Read full review
Review: Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century
User Review - Kaci - GoodreadsLoved this book. The images were beautiful (frame-it-and-put-it-on-your-wall beauitful). The writing was illuminating, challenging, and really made me think. The perfect combination of being visually and conceptually compelling. Read full review
Review: Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century
User Review - Layla - GoodreadsBeautiful book! It's basically eye-candy for people who enjoy neuroscience. I'm a neuroanatomist and I can tell you that we're pretty under appreciated. ;) I think it's really nice that readers of this book can see the beauty that this type of research can produce. Read full review
Review: Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century
User Review - GoodreadsBeautiful, beautiful pictures. This is a very pretty book. The fields of science and stage magic are probably both better off for Carl Schoonover choosing the former, though - he's got an admirably insatiable need to tell the audience how the tricks are done.
Review: Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century
User Review - Grady - GoodreadsImages of How the Brain Works Carl Schoonover, a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow at Columbia University, has provided information and images about the function of the central nervous ... Read full review
Review: Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century
User Review - Hillary - GoodreadsThere's a lot of information packed into this book, and it is accompanied by beautiful glossy images. as the title and subtitle suggest, this little gem of a book discusses all known forms of brain ... Read full review
Review: Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century
User Review - Shannon - GoodreadsYou do not have to be a scientist to enjoy this book. I came to the book from an artist's perspective and recommend the book to anyone interested in intersections between Art and Science, especially ... Read full review
Review: Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century
User Review - Davie - GoodreadsAwesome and maddening. Maddeningly awesome. It's sort of like taking a docent-led tour of a neuroscience museum / exploratorium. There are a lot of incredibly intriguing images and tidbits and caption ... Read full review
