Our brains need to adapt quickly to meet the challenges of our digital world, but a rigorous new book by a neuroscientist brings hope that we can do it, says Graham Lawton
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Our brains need to adapt quickly to meet the challenges of our digital world, but a rigorous new book by a neuroscientist brings hope that we can do it, says Graham Lawton
By Graham Lawton
29 April 2026
Our brains need to adapt quickly to meet the challenges of our digital world, but a rigorous new book by a neuroscientist brings…
While the technical reasons are convincingly explained, they feel like basic common sense
The Cambridge neuroscientist who says the future of wellbeing lies in how adaptable our brains really are
From the threat of superintelligent AI to the dangers of overdiagnosis; plus the evolution of language and the restless genius of…
The journalist and polymath probes the mysteries of the mind in this unsettling yet life-affirming investigation
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