Ask HN: Anybody knows a good up-to-date book about the brain?

5 points by henearkr ↗ HN
In the past one or two decades there have been tremendous discoveries about the brain.

Just to quote a few examples, the fact that the cerebellum acts as a general purpose GPU and patterns storage, the existence of a lymphatic system in the brain, the exchange of information between neurons via pseudo-viral complexes, the fact that the dendrites perform calculus at multiple levels from the soma to the synapses, the new detailed role of astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, etc...

So I'd like to read a good book, if possible with deep information but still accessible for the non-professional, that would include all these fresh discoveries.

Do any of you know such book?

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Most what you mention comes from few articles, are hypotheses, or the details and importance of the discoveries are unknown.
Agreed, but most of the essays I read are precisely made of this kind of contents, so I would have hoped some updated books.

Just like most of the best-seller essays use this type of contents, just read any book from the regretted Stephen Hawking...

But if you have any reference textbook that is less "experimental" (in the Debian package meaning), I'm also happy to hear you!!

Neuroscience 6th edition (2018), Dale Purves et al. is up do date.