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  • The Tailored Brain

  • From Ketamine, to Keto, to Companionship, a User's Guide to Feeling Better and Thinking Smarter
  • By: Emily Willingham
  • Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
  • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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The Tailored Brain

By: Emily Willingham
Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
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Publisher's summary

A candid and practical guide to the new frontier of brain customization.

Dozens of books promise to improve your brain function with a gimmick. Lifestyle changes, microdosing, electromagnetic stimulation: Just one weird trick can lightly alter or dramatically deconstruct your brain.

In truth, there is no one-size-fits-all shortcut to the ideal mind. Instead, the way to understand cognitive enhancement is to think like a tailor: Measure how you need your brain to change, and then find a plan that suits it.

In The Tailored Brain, Emily Willingham explores the promises and limitations of well-known and emerging methods of brain customization, including prescription drugs, diets, and new research on the power of your “social brain”.

Packed with real-life examples and checklists that allow listeners to better understand their cognitive needs, this is the definitive guide to a better brain.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2021 Emily Willingham (P)2021 Basic Books
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Critic reviews

“This searching guide to better brain health….effectively punches holes in unproven practices.” (Publishers Weekly)

“In a field characterized by junk science and false promises, Willingham offers something radical and unique — a book about improving your brain that layers rigorous science upon a moral center of kindness and empathy. The Tailored Brain is for people who want to think better and be good doing it. It’s also hilarious.” (Ed Yong, author of I Contain Multitudes)

“We all want to know what neuroscience can teach us about changing our minds to make us better people — for ourselves and our world. But that research often lacks clarity, and the literature of wellness and self-improvement is full of woo and nonsense. Luckily, we have Emily Willingham. She’s an ace, and The Tailored Brain turns a cacophony of information into actionable, life-changing music.” (Adam Rogers, author of Full Spectrum)

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