While I’ve always had a friendly stance toward therapy and medicine — my book has many strongly worded encouragements to would-be neurohackers with medical conditions that they should work closely with their doctors and health care providers — I have to confess that, before the book came out, I encountered…

The brain is one of the most fascinating, complex, and deeply personal wonders of the world. Each of us carries one around each day, but very few of us get to see ours in action. But what if we could? We might discover truths not written in any textbook, yet. …

This is not a story about cleaning house, but it started out that way. It was 2011, and my room was a cold mess. Describing it as a hot mess would have imbued it with more fun than the pathetic dumping ground was having. Boxes. Shoes. Books. Papers. Piles and…

On a recent carpool back from a consulting project at Stanford, Adrian*, a 22 year-old scientist asked me how he might optimize his mental performance. He seemed genuinely curious, so I decided to answer in detail. …