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The Dopamine Code Workbook
Your Guided Companion for Unlocking Habits to Boost Happiness and Productivity
Dr. Sydney Ceruto, PhD · Neuroscientist & Author
You have read the science. Now put it to work. The Dopamine Code Workbook turns the framework of The Dopamine Code into a guided, chapter-by-chapter system you build at your own pace.
Structured prompts, self-assessments, and the complete Menu-building process, laid out step by step, so the recalibration does not stay theoretical. It becomes your own.
From Page to Practice
Put the Science to Work
From Understanding to Practice
The Dopamine Code explains why your reward system misfires and what is structurally required to recalibrate it. The Workbook is where you do that work. Each exercise takes a concept from the book and turns it into a decision, a plan, or a habit you can act on this week.
Written to be worked through, not just read. Bring a pen. Bring the pattern you want to change. Leave with a personalized Dopamine Menu that fits how your brain actually functions.
What You Will Work Through
A structured path from diagnosis to lasting change
Chapter One
The Diagnosis
Audit your relationship with dopamine and map the drivers behind your patterns.
Chapter Two
The Reset
Break overstimulation loops and lower a reward threshold that has drifted too high.
Chapter Three
The Foundation
Align sleep, movement, nutrition, and circadian rhythm so the biology supports the change.
Chapter Four
The Reconstruction
Build your Dopamine Menu: Main Courses, Side Dishes, and Restorative Desserts, calibrated to you.
Chapter Five
The Application
Put the renewed system to work on focus, flow, creativity, and sustained deep work.
Chapter Six
The Deepening
Turn short-term wins into durable resilience, deeper connection, and lasting meaning.
The Heart of the Workbook
Build Your Own Dopamine Menu
A Prix Fixe Tasting for the Modern Brain
The Dopamine Menu is the core framework of The Dopamine Code: a personalized system for structuring your brain’s motivation and reward pathways the way a chef structures a tasting menu. Main Courses for deep engagement. Side Dishes for novelty and resets. Restorative Desserts for mental renewal. The book explains the concept. The Workbook is where you build yours.
Chapter 4, The Reconstruction, walks you through the whole process on the page: categorize your rewards into Main Courses, Side Dishes, and Restorative Desserts, test your menu for two weeks, then refine it as your brain recalibrates. Each course calibrated to your neurology, not borrowed from someone else’s.
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The Dopamine Code
How to Rewire Your Brain for Happiness and Productivity
The Workbook puts The Dopamine Code into practice, so start with the book. The Dopamine Code is where Dr. Ceruto lays out the full science: how your brain predicts reward, why that prediction misfires, and the complete Dopamine Menu framework this Workbook helps you build.
Published by Simon & Schuster. Available now.
About the Author
Dr. Sydney Ceruto
Pioneer of Real-Time Neuroplasticity™
Founder & CEO of MindLAB Neuroscience, Dr. Sydney Ceruto is the pioneer of Real-Time Neuroplasticity™: a proprietary methodology that permanently rewires the neural pathways driving behavior, decisions, and emotional responses. Through her proprietary programs (including NeuroConcierge™ and NeuroSync™) Dr. Ceruto provides neurological re-engineering that optimizes neural pathways, eliminates behavioral limiting patterns, and sustains clarity under pressure. She works with a select number of individuals, embedding into their lives in real time across every domain: personal, professional, and relational.
Dr. Ceruto is the author of The Dopamine Code: How to Rewire Your Brain for Happiness and Productivity (Simon & Schuster, June 2026) and The Dopamine Code Workbook (Simon & Schuster, October 2026). She is also the author of Rewire for Resilience: Heal Your Anxious Brain in 30 Days (MindLAB Press).
Dr. Ceruto holds a PhD in Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience (NYU) and Master’s degrees in Clinical Psychology and Business Psychology (Yale University). Lecturer, Wharton Executive Development Program, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Ceruto brings 26+ years of founding and leading MindLAB Neuroscience to her practice.
Regularly featured in Forbes, USA Today, Newsweek, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Fox Business, Associated Press, and CBS News.
