Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (Revised and Expanded) is a completely revised and updated edition that brings together scientific evidence and practical tools. In this book, renowned neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen explains how your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could connect to how specific brain structures work—showing that you are not limited to the brain you were born with.
The book includes approachable “brain prescriptions” designed to address different challenges. You’ll find simple breathing techniques aimed at calming anxiety and panic, and guidance for depression including how to kill ANTs (automatic negative thoughts). For anger, it references the Amen anti-anger diet and highlights nutrients that calm rage.
To support focus and impulsiveness, the book also points to the One-Page Miracle. And for obsessive worrying, it offers the “get unstuck” writing exercise and other problem-solving exercises that can help you move past getting stuck.