Dean Burnett, 35, is a Cardiff-based neuroscientist, blogger and occasional standup comedian who writes the Guardian’s science blog Brain Flapping. His bestselling book The Idiot Brain, published in 2016, portrayed the human brain as an extraordinary organ that is also messy, fallible and disorganised. In his follow-up, The Happy Brain, Burnett delves into our grey matter once more to explore the slippery notion of happiness, asking: what causes it, and why? Happiness shouldn’t be the default state in the human brain. • The Happy Brain by Dean Burnett is published by Guardian Faber (£12.99).

Source: The Guardian April 28, 2018 12:00 UTC