Casey Schwartz

Casey Schwartz is an author. She wrote Attention: A Love Story and In the Mind Fields, about the culture clash between the old and the new ways of thinking about the mind and the brain. Previously, Schwartz was a staff writer at Newsweek and The Daily Beast, where she covered neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry. She contributes regularly to The New York Times, and her writing has also appeared in Newsweek, Departures, and New York, among other publications. Schwartz is working on a book based on her New York Times Magazine essay, “Generation Adderall.” A graduate of Brown University, she earned a master’s degree in psychodynamic developmental neuroscience from University College London.