Book review: Synaptic Self by Joseph Ledoux

The past three weeks I am going over an interesting book called "Synaptic Self - Joseph LeDoux". Broadly, books about neuroscience fall into two different categories, layman books and formal textbooks. Layman books discusses about day-to-day aspects of brain mechanisms like sleep, addiction, memory etc. The second category is the text books that are extremely technical in nature (Kandel Principles etc). Given my urge to read and understand about brain as much as possible, I encountered Joseph LeBoux's book that targets Scientific American level readers. The concepts are all extremely well written and the language/style is simply superb. The book mixes both historic references along with latest discoveries and establishes a perfect link between them. Even though my interest lies in computational neuroscience aspects of the brain, this book helped me in getting a better picture about other brain areas that I have not often read or worked on like amygdala, hippocampus, cerebellum, and so on. This book is a must read for any aspiring neuro-scientist or neuromorphic engineers.