Wendy Suzuki: Healthy Brain Happy Life

My Brain on Exercise: One Professor's Grand Experiment

There’s nothing quite like a milestone birthday to make you take stock of your life—and as Wendy Suzuki stared down the big 4-0 she was struck by some difficult truths. As a tenured professor in charge of her own lab at NYU’s Center for Neural Science, she had everything she’d been dreaming of since falling in love with the human brain during a fateful freshman seminar at UC Berkeley.

The trouble was that she didn’t have much else. “It was as if I were leading a double life,” Suzuki writes of the realization in her new book Healthy Brain, Happy Life: A Personal Program to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better. “My science life was like one big party that you never wanted to leave, with lots of interesting colleagues to talk to and always something new and interesting in the works. By contrast, my social life was like one of those deserted ghost towns in a Clint Eastwood western with bunches of tumbleweed swirling around the dusty road.”

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