
The Runaway Species, co-authored with music composer Anthony Brandt, explores the neuroscience and behavior behind human creativity.Įagleman is a TED speaker, a Guggenheim Fellow, and serves on several boards, including the American Brain Foundation and the The Long Now Foundation. The award-winning Wednesday is Indigo Blue explores the neurological condition of synesthesia, in which the senses are blended. The Safety Net examines what the advent of the internet means on the timescale of civilizations. His work of fiction, SUM, is an international bestseller published in 33 languages and turned into two operas.


His bestselling book Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, explores the neuroscience “under the hood” of the conscious mind: all the aspects of neural function to which we have no awareness or access.

His latest book Livewired tells the story of brain plasticity: how your forest of billions of neurons reconfigures every moment over your life. Beyond his 120+ academic publications, he has published many popular books.
