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How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend

A Neuroscientist's Guide to a Healthier, Happier Life

Rachel Barr

ISBN-13: 9780241720004
RRP: £16.99
Pages: 288
Publication date: 28th August 2025
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: DK RED

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, author of And How Does That Make You Feel?

Neuroscientist and mental health advocate Rachel Barr invites you to know your brain better - and live a calmer more fulfilled life as a result

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.
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.

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A true masterpiece. Rachel Barr has done a phenomenal job breaking down the complexities of the human mind into language that’s easy to understand.

– Jeffrey Meltzer, LMHC, licensed therapist and mental health content creator