Killing Them Softly: Neuroscience Reveals How Brain Cells Die from Law School Stress and How Neutral Self-Hacking Can Optimize Cognitive Performance

Abstract

Law is a cognitive profession, and the legendary stressors in legal education and the practice of law can take a tremendous toll on cognitive capacity. Lawyers suffer from depression at triple the rate of non-lawyers. This Article provides a groundbreaking synthesis on the neuroscience of achieving optimal cognitive fitness for all law students, law professors, and lawyers.