A neuroscientist draws on research in the fields of evolutionary psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to offer compelling evidence that having to work for rewards improves mood and prevents depression and to argue that physical effort aimed toward tangible outcomes activates regions of the brain to build resilience against the negativity associated with depression. 25,000 first printing.
Kelly Lambert, Ph.D., is Chair of Psychology at Randolph-Macon College and has published widely in the neuroscientific literature. Her smart-rats research, which is described in The Mommy Brain, was most recently presented on ABC's ?World News Tonight.” She lives in Mechanicsville, Virginia.