
By Beatrice Ballarin
This year I picked Educated by Tara Westover for my summer readings by the Venetian beaches. I have heard a lot about this book, although I do not usually read memoirs, I decided to see for myself …

BY: Beatrice Ballarin
When I picked up this book last January at Indigo, besides being attracted by the bright orange colour of the cover, I have to admit that I was a bit frustrated with how things were going …

BY: Beatrice Ballarin
As scientists we generally study addiction by focusing on the addicted individual. This means we can sometimes fail to see the broader social and emotional consequences of addiction, especially if there is a child involved. In …

By: Beatrice Ballarin
By now you must have heard of Lab Girl. To mention a few, it’s won the National Bestseller, been nominated for The New York Times Notable Book, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, …

By: Priya Makhijani
“We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.”
– Richard Feynman
Dr. Richard Feynman was a theoretical physicist who passed away a few months before Dr. Stephen Hawking’s highly acclaimed …

By: Beatrice Ballarin
I picked up The Beauty of Discomfort: How What We Avoid Is What We Need by Amanda Lang at Indigo one evening after a long day at the laboratory with discouraging results. The aptly titled book intrigued …

By: Juhie Ahme
Edited by: Dr. Roger S. McIntyre (Associate Editor: Danielle S. Cha)
Cognitive Impairment in Major Depressive Disorder: Clinical Relevance, Biological Substrates, and Treatment Opportunities is a comprehensive text written by leading researchers in the field of psychiatry …

By: Arunima Kapoor
The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge elucidates a significant paradigm shift that took place in the field of neuroscience when neuroplasticity was first observed. As a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge provides insight into the …


Author: Sam Kean
Reviewed by: Jabir Mohamed
In The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, Sam Kean traces the origins of modern neuroscience through stories of brain injury and recovery. Celebrated figures from the annals of …


Author: Brigid Schulte
Reviewed by: Chelsea Lowther
As most graduate students know, when you run into a fellow graduate student the conversation inadvertently turns to how busy you are. There are tales of long hours spent in the lab, revision …