The following is a list of books, articles, and some video/DVD resources about the brain, brain development, and related topics which utilize information from brain science. Many of the articles are available on the World Wide Web. This is not a comprehensive list, but is a compilation of books and articles that I have found to be informative, enlightening, and even entertaining!
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Baltes, Paul B., Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz, and Frank Rösler, Eds. Lifespan Development and the Brain: The Perspective of Biocultural Co-Constructivism . New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Blair, Clancy and R.P. Razza. “Self-regulation Abilities, Beyond Intelligence, Play Major Role In Early Achievement.” Science Daily. Society for Research in Child Development, March 29, 2007. Retrieved November 14, 2008 from:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070326095349.htm
Blakeslee, Sandra. “Cells That Read Minds” The New York Times , Jan. 10, 2006. Downloaded from www.nytimes.com . (Do a search for the article by author. Do a search using the word “brain” and you'll get all the articles they've run.)
Blakeslee, Sandra and Matthew Blakeslee. The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better. New York: Random House, 2007. (Paperback Edition, 2008)
Bloom, Floyd E., M.D., Ed. Best of the Brain from Scientific American: Mind, Matter, and Tomorrow's Brain . New York : Dana Press, 2007.
Bodrova, Elena and Deborah J. Leong. Tools of the Mind: The Vygotskian Approach to Early Childhood Education . 2 nd Ed. Columbus , Ohio : Pearson, 2007.
Bronson, Martha B. Self-Regulation in Early Childhood: Nature and Nurture. New York: The Guilford Press, 2000. Carpenter, Siri. “Buried Prejudice.” Scientific American Mind. April/May 2008, 33-39.
Bronson, Po, and Ashley Merryman. Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children. New York: Twelve – Hachette Book Group, 2009.
Children's Emotional Development is Built into the Architecture of their Brains : Working Paper No. 2. National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, 2004. www.developingchild.net
Cozolina, Louis. The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Brain . New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2006.
Damasio, Antonio R. Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain . New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1994.
Dingfelder, S. “Teachers’ math talk may boost preschool math skills.” Monitor on Psychology. February 2006, 10.
Doidge, Norman, M.D. The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science . New York : Penguin Group, 2007.
Dowling, John E. Creating Mind: How the Brain Works . New York : W.W. Norton& Co., 1998.
Eisenstadt, Leah. “Empathy on the Brain” triplepoint , 2005. www.bu.edu/sjmag/scimag2005/features/mirrorneurons.htm
Emory University Health Sciences Center . “Emory Brain Imaging Studies Reveal Biological Basis for Human Cooperation” Science Daily . July 18, 2002.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020718075131.htm
Excessive Stress Disrupts the Architecture of the Developing Brain : Working Paper No. 3. 2005. National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. www.developingchild.net
Fields, R. Douglas. The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries about the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009.
Gallese, Vittorio. “Intentional Attunement: The Mirror Neuron system and its role in interpersonal relations”, interdisciplines . Downloaded 9/11/2006.
www.interdisciplines.org/mirror/papers/1
Goldberg, Elkhonon. The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind . New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Goleman, Daniel. Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships . New York : Bantam Dell, 2006.
Green, Simon. Principles of Biopsychology . East Sussex, United Kingdom : Psychology Press Ltd., 1997.
Hari, Riitta. “The Social Brain”, Project Syndicate . September 2002. www.project-syndicate.org/print_commentary/hari1/English
Iacaoboni, Marco. Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect With Others . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Jensen, Eric. Music with the Brain in Mind . Thousand Oaks , California : Corwin Press, 2000.
Karr-Morse, Robin, and Meredith S. Wiley. Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence . New York : Atlantic Monthly Press: 1997.
Kandel, Eric R. In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind . New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.
Kandel, Eric R., James H. Schwartz, and Thomas M. Jessell. Essentials of Neural Science and Behavior . Norwalk , Connecticut : Appleton & Lange, 1995.
Kandel, Eric R., James H. Schwartz, and Thomas M. Jessell. Principles of Neural Science and Behavior . Fourth Edition. New York : McGraw-Hill, 2000.
LeDoux, Joseph. Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are . New York : Penguin Books, 2002.
MENC: The National Association for Music Education. Music Makes the Difference: Music, Brain Development and Learning . Reston , Virginia : MENC: The National Association for Music Education, 2000.
Nisbett, Richard E. The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently… and Why . New York : Free Press, 2003.
Nolte, John. The Human Brain: An Introduction to Its Functional Anatomy . Fifth Edition. St. Louis , Missouri , 2002.
Norden, Jeanette, Ph.D. Understanding the Brain . (DVD and Print) Chantilly , Virginia : The Teaching Company, 2007.
Packard, E. “Pre-K math and reading predict later success.” Monitor on Psychology, January 2008.
Perry, Bruce D., M.D. “Emotional Development: The Developmental Hot Zone- Helping children move from the comfortable and familiar and take on new challenges.” Early Childhood Today. November 2000. Online version athttp://www2.scholastic.com.
Perry, Bruce D., M.D., Ph.D. and Maia Szalavitz. The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog - And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing . New York : Basic Books, 2006.
Pica, Rae. Great Games for Young Children: Over 100 Games to Develop Self-Confidence, Problem-Solving Skills, and Cooperation. Beltsville, MD: Gryphon House, 2006.
Pines, Malcolm. “Social Brain and Social Group: How Mirroring Connects People”, Group Analysis . London : The Group-Analytic Society, Vol. 36 (4): 507-513, 2003.
Ramachandran, V.S., M.D. A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Imposter Poodles to Purple Numbers . New York : Pearson Education, Inc., 2004. This same set of lectures was published by Profile Books, London , under the title: The Emerging Mind: BBC The Reith Lectures , 2003.
Ramachandran, V.S. “Mirror Neurons and the Brain in the Vat”, [1.10.06] Edge The Third Culture . Edge Foundation, Inc. 2006. www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran06/ramachandran06_index.html
Ramachandran, V.S., M.D., Ph.D. and Sandra Blakeslee. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind . New York : Harper Collins Publishers Inc., 1998.
Read, Cynthia A., Ed.Cerebrum 2008: Emerging Ideas in Brain Science . New York: Dana Press, 2008.
Restak, Richard, M.D. The Naked Brain: How the Emerging Neurosociety is Changing How We Live, Work, and Love . New York : Three Rivers Press, 2006.
Rizzolatti, Giacomo; Fogassi, Leonardo; and, Gallese, Vittorio. “Mirrors in the Mind”, Scientific American . Nov. 2006, Vol. 295, Issue 5, 54-61.
Rizzolatti, Giacomo and Corrado Sinigaglia. Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions and Emotions . New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Schwartz, Jeffrey M., M.D. and Sharon Begley. The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force . New York: Harper Collins Pub., 2002.
Science of Early Childhood Development, The . 2007. National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. www.developingchild.net
Secret Life of the Brain, The . (5 video series) New York : Educational Broadcasting Corporation and David Grubin Productions, Inc., 2001.
Siegel, Daniel J. The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being . New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2007.
Shonkoff, Jack P. and Deborah A. Phillips, Eds. From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2000.
Shore, Rima. Rethinking the Brain: New Insights into Early Development . New York : Families and Work Institute, 1997.
Society for Research in Child Development. “Self-regulation Abilities, Beyond Intelligence, lay Major Role in Early Achievement.” Science Daily. Retrieved November 14, 2008, fromhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070326095349.htm
Stiles, Joan. The Fundamentals of Brain Development: Integrating Nature and Nurture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.
Storch, Maja. “Taking the Reins.” Scientific American Mind. Vol. 16, No 2, 2005, 88-89.
Sylwester, Robert, Ed.D. “A Social Brain Deserves a Democratic Classroom – Part 1”, brain connection . October 2003. www.brainconnection.com/content/196_1
Sylwester, Robert, Ed.D. “Mirror Neuron Update”, brain connection . February 2006. www.brainconnection.com/content/226_1
Trotnick, Ed. The Neurobehavioral and Social-Emotional Development of Infants and Children . New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2007.
Wexler, Bruce E. Brain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change . Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006.
Wolfe, Patricia. Brain Matters: Translating Research into Classroom Practice . Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2001.
Young Children Develop in an Environment of Relationships : Working Paper No. 1, 2004. National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. www.developingchild.net
Zimmer, Carl. “The Neurobiology of the Self” Scientific American . Nov. 2005, Vol. 293, Issue 5, 92-101.
Kathy A. Bobula, Ph.D.
(Last updated, July 10, 2010)