In We Are Our Brains (2013), a bestseller in fifteen countries, neuroscientist Dick Swaab explained how the brain we are born with shapes our lives. The new book emphasizes the creativity of the brain, which has made possible the creation of the complex environments around us, which in turn influence the development of the brain. Brain research leads not only to new treatment strategies and measures to prevent brain diseases, but constantly generates more societal implications for school education, judicial practice, politics. Findings from brain research may contribute to the needed destigmatization of neurological and mental illness. The book again demonstrates Swaab's unrivaled talent for communicating complex issues in accessible language. The book contains the author's selection of illustrations. Dick Swaab (b. 1944) is a world-renowned scientist who leads a group of researchers at the Netherlands Institute of Neurobiology and headed the Netherlands Brain Institute for almost thirty years (1978–2005). Professor at the University of Amsterdam and Zhejiang University in Hangzhou (China).