The Tailored Brain: From Ketamine, to Keto, to Companionship, a User’’s Guide to Feeling Better and Thinking Smarter

＂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 ... [The author] 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 readers to better understand their cognitive needs, this is the definitive guide to a better brain＂--

Emily Willingham is a biologist turned science writer. After completing a PhD in biology from UT Austin and a postdoc at UC San Francisco, she taught biology at several universities before turning her attention to journalism full-time, focusing on health, science, and medicine. She has served on the board of the National Association of Science Writers and her bylines have appeared in the New York Times, Scientific American, Forbes, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, Men’s Health, and elsewhere. Willingham is the co-author of The Informed Parent and the author of Phallacy, which was recently selected for the Quarantine Book Club. She lives in California.