How the Brain Connects to Cognitive & Behavioral Change – by Dr. Robert Lavine

From the title, you could be forgiven for expecting this to be a dry book of neurology or perhaps psychology. However! While the author is indeed a neurologist and is usually ears-deep in academia, this work here is actually mostly about brain-hacking.

In other words, it pertains to improving one’s cognitive function by an assortment of means, ranging from nootropics (this book makes the case for supplementing with oxytocin), to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), behavioural adjustments (thematically linked to the aforementioned CBT, but also quite distinct in application) and environmental factors (which this book does not consider in great depth, but does cover clearly).

The book is arranged around various problems as the topic headers, with discussion of what’s going wrong and why, and in each case at least one explanation of how it can be corrected.

Legal disclaimers abound throughout, and the book is not offering medical advice per se. However, for those interested—for academic or practical reasons—the pointers are there to get the reader heading in the right direction.

The style, therefore, is accessible and relatively jargon-free, and is content to seem what it really is: a book written by an academic, but for a lay audience.

Bottom line: if you’d like to better understand your brain with an emphasis on the practicalities and how to make it work better, this book can help with that.

Click here to check out How the Brain Connects to Cognitive & Behavioral Change, and make the connections that suit you best!