Books by Masud Husain
Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain
by Masud Husain
🏆 Winner of the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize
“A beautiful exploration of how problems in our brains can cause us to change. Its about the concept of ‘self’ and how pathological problems in the brain can cause people to become completely different, and therefore be rejected by society. It’s a very empathetic book, told in a wonderful way, and from a very personal perspective. You see this is a doctor who feels very much for these people.” Read more...
The Best Popular Science Books of 2025: The Royal Society Book Prize
Sandra Knapp, Biologist
Interviews where books by Masud Husain were recommended
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Stronger: The Untold Story of Muscle in Our Lives
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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well
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Outlive: The Art and Science of Longevity
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Music as Medicine: How We Can Harness Its Therapeutic Power
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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
by Jonathan Haidt
10 Recent Books about Health
10 Recent Books about Health
What’s good for your health can be bewildering at times, as new studies reveal new angles on what’s good for you and what’s bad for you. What to eat can be particularly confusing, as we try to differentiate the latest fad from what actually matters to our long-term health.
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Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain
by Masud Husain -
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Music as Medicine: How We Can Harness Its Therapeutic Power
by Daniel Levitin -
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Your Life Is Manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better
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The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege
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Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction
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Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and our Future
by Neil Shubin
The Best Popular Science Books of 2025: The Royal Society Book Prize, recommended by Sandra Knapp
The Best Popular Science Books of 2025: The Royal Society Book Prize, recommended by Sandra Knapp
Every year, the judges for the Royal Society Book Prize search for the most informative and most readable new books on scientific subjects. In 2025, their shortlist of the best popular science books includes a history of extinction in the colonial world, and the heartrending story of the struggle to save the world’s first seed bank during the Siege of Leningrad. We spoke to the botanist Dr Sandra Knapp, chair of the judging panel.
