The Upgrade
How the Female Brain Gets Stronger and Better in Midlife and Beyond
Welcome to the better half of your life. The New York Times bestselling author of The Female Brain explains how a woman’s brain gets “upgraded” in midlife, inspiring and guiding women to unlock their full potential.
“This is an important book. I want all women to read it. I wish I had read it years ago!”—Jane Fonda
Dr. Louann Brizendine was among the first to explain why women think, communicate, and feel differently than men. Now, inspired by her own experiences and those of the thousands of women at her clinic, she has a message that is nothing short of revolutionary: in the time of life typically known as menopause, women’s brains are reshaped, for the better, in a way that creates new…
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April 19, 2022
LOUANN BRIZENDINE, M.D., a neuropsychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco, is the founder of the Women’s and Teen Girls’ Mood and Hormone Clinic. She was previously on faculty at the Harvard Medical School and is a graduate of the Yale University School of Medicine and the University of California, Berkeley, in neurobiology. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and son.
The Upgrade
Louann Brizendine, MD
The Male Brain
Louann Brizendine, M.D., New York Times Bestselling Author of The Female Brain
The Female Brain
Louann Brizendine, M.D.
On Consolation
Michael Ignatieff
Who's Afraid of Gender?
Judith Butler
The Certainty Illusion
Timothy Caulfield
How to Calm Your Mind
Chris Bailey
Letters
Oliver Sacks
Meditations for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman
Mind the Science
Jonathan N. Stea, PhD
I Heard There Was A Secret Chord
Daniel J. Levitin
Rough Magic
Miranda Newman
Releasing the Mother Load
Erica Djossa
Supercommunicators
Charles Duhigg
Mind Over Matter
Jordin Tootoo with Stephen Brunt
Strangers to Ourselves
Rachel Aviv
One Sunny Afternoon
Rowan Jetté Knox (formerly Amanda Jetté Knox)
Generation Dread
Britt Wray
Just Once, No More
Charles Foran
On Consolation
Michael Ignatieff
The Book of Possibilities
Bee Quammie
All We Want
Michael Harris
Why We Remember
Charan Ranganath
The Certainty Illusion
Timothy Caulfield
How to Calm Your Mind
Chris Bailey
The Art of Danish Living
Meik Wiking
Every Family Has a Story
Julia Samuel
Meditations for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman
Into the Uncut Grass
Trevor Noah
Closer Together
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau
Releasing the Mother Load
Erica Djossa
The Only Constant
Najwa Zebian