The Genius Within: Smart Pills, Brain Hacks and Adventures in Intelligence (Paperback)

Witty, sharp and enlightening ... This book will make you smarter - Adam Rutherford

A breezily written pop science book about the quest to find out about what intelligence is and how it can be boosted. - Robbie Millen, The Sunday Times

What if you could zap your head or take a pill, like Bradley Cooper in the film Limitless, and become insanely clever? Over the last decade, this sci-fi possibility has started to approach reality, and David Adam’s book is a timely prologue to the brave new world that might await us...Fascinating. - The Guardian

Quite simply book of the year, on living with OCD: just buy it now - Adam Rutherford on The Man Who Couldn't Stop

A fundamentally important book that will bring a breath of fresh understanding to sufferers . . . It will make you think again - Sunday Times on The Man Who Couldn't Stop

[A] fascinating study of the living nightmare that is obsessive compulsive disorder . . . one of the best and most readable studies of a mental illness to have emerged in recent years . . . an honest and open and, yes, maybe life-changing work - Matt Haig, Observer, on The Man Who Couldn't Stop

A brave and helpful contribution to deepening our understanding of the intricate complexities of mental ill-health - The Times on The Man Who Couldn't Stop