How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend: A Neuroscientist's Guide to a Healthier, Happier Life

「有趣，但同時深入且嚴謹的研究。」——尼爾．夏明斯基教授

「真正的傑作。瑞秋．巴爾出色地解析了人類心智的複雜性。」——傑佛瑞．梅爾茨（LMHC）

「富有洞察力且貼近生活的心理教育，揭開大腦之謎……作為一名治療師，這本書將是我自豪地放在書架上的資源。」——焦慮症治療師喬舒亞．弗萊徹

你的大腦是已知宇宙中最了不起的存在。

它總是在嘗試修復自己，也總是在保護你，處於不斷變化之中——適應、重組、尋找新的神經通路……並且擁有驚人的恢復能力。

只是，它並非總是做得正確。

瑞秋．巴爾經歷了多年令人心碎的失落、痛苦與不確定，直到神經科學給了她成年以來第一次的自信火花——也證明了，由於大腦幾乎無限的神經可塑性潛力，永遠不晚去開闢新的神經通路，養成新習慣、掌握新技能，並建立新的思維方式。

無論你想沉浸於神經科學縮寫、終於理解腦中運作的奧秘，或在一本像溫暖擁抱般的書中找到慰藉，《如何讓大腦成為你的摯友》都是一本充滿樂趣、以證據為基礎的指南，教你更好地照顧大腦，從而讓大腦更好地照顧你。

'Fun, but still deeply, rigorously researched.' - Professor Neil Shyminsky

'A true masterpiece. Rachel Barr has done a phenomenal job breaking down the complexities of the human mind.' - Jeffrey Meltzer, LMHC

'Insightful and relatable psychoeducation that demystifies the brain . . . it’s a resource I’ll proudly keep on my shelf as a therapist.' - Joshua Fletcher, anxiety therapist

Your brain is the most remarkable thing in the known universe.

Always trying to mend itself, and always trying to protect you, it’s in a constant state of flux ― adapting, reconfiguring, finding new pathways . . . And it has an astonishing capacity for recovery.

Only it doesn’t always get it right.

Rachel Barr struggled through years of devastating loss, heartache, and uncertainty until neuroscience gave her the first spark of self-belief she had felt in her adult life ― and proof that, because of the brain’s near-infinite potential for neuroplastic change, it’s never too late to carve out neural pathways to form new habits, new skills, and new ways of thinking.

Whether you want to nerd-out on Neuroscientific acronyms, finally understand what’s going on in your head, or take refuge in a book that’s like a warm hug for your mind, How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend is a delight-filled, evidence-based guide to taking better care of your brain ― so it, in turn, will take better care of you.