Maia Szalavitz

Maia Szalavitz is  a neuroscience journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller, Unbroken Brain:  A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction. She specializes in covering the intersection between brain and behavior and how social factors like inequality get under the skin.  She is the author or co-author of six other books and writes for major publications including the Guardian, TIME, the New York Times, Scientific American Mind, the Washington Post, VICE and Pacific Standard.