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David DiSalvo

About

David DiSalvo is a science writer and public education specialist who writes about the intersection of science, technology and culture. He is the author of Brain Changer: How Harnessing Your Brain’s Power to Adapt Can Change Your Life, and the best-selling What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite, which has been published in 15 languages. His work has appeared in Scientific American Mind, Psychology Today, Forbes, TIME, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Quartz, Esquire, Mental Floss and other publications, and he’s the writer behind the widely read science and technology blogs “Neuropsyched” at Forbes and “Neuronarrative” at Psychology Today. He is frequently interviewed about science and technology topics. You can find him on Twitter @neuronarrative and at his website, daviddisalvo.org.

Books by David DiSalvo
Recent Posts
We May Be More Adaptive Than We Think
While stressful events throw us off our game, a recent study finds that our psychological immune system has the power to bounce back faster than previously thought.
Why We Often Fail to Reach Our Goals
If you're sitting at home, as many of us are, thinking through goals you've been wanting to achieve, take note of new research that explains why we often fail to get there.
Is the Brain Wired to Give Up When A Reward Is Out of Reach?

Giving up feels like failure, but new research suggests that it's really just part of a necessary balancing act in the brain.

Giving up feels like failure, but new research suggests that it's really just part of a necessary balancing act in the brain.

Study: Put Down Your Smartphone to Let Your Brain Recharge

Our smartphones exert an enormous mental energy drain and it's taking a toll on our performance. A new study reveals the reasons why and what we can do about it.

Our smartphones exert an enormous mental energy drain and it's taking a toll on our performance. A new study reveals the reasons why and what we can do about it.

12 Ways to Change Your Health by Changing Your Mind

When it comes to improving health, changing your mindset can result in science-backed benefits if you can commit to the challenge of following through.

When it comes to improving health, changing your mindset can result in science-backed benefits if you can commit to the challenge of following through.

Could Stress Turn Our Gut Bacteria Against Us?

Findings from new research suggests that social stress alters both the composition and behavior of gut bacteria, leading to self-destructive changes in the body’s immune system.

Findings from new research suggests that social stress alters both the composition and behavior of gut bacteria, leading to self-destructive changes in the body’s immune system.

Depression, Inflammation and Women's Mental Health

New research uncovers evidence of the link between inflammation and depression, and also sheds potential light on why women suffer from depression more frequently than men.

New research uncovers evidence of the link between inflammation and depression, and also sheds potential light on why women suffer from depression more frequently than men.

The 'Stress Vaccine' May Be Another Step Closer To Reality

The long-theorized 'stress vaccine' may have just taken a big step closer to becoming real, with the discovery of how dirt-dwelling bacteria disarm the fight-or-flight response.

The long-theorized 'stress vaccine' may have just taken a big step closer to becoming real, with the discovery of how dirt-dwelling bacteria disarm the fight-or-flight response.