Neuroscientist · Author · Speaker
About Dr. Sydney Ceruto
A PhD neuroscientist applying behavioral and cognitive science to how people think, decide, and change under pressure.
Dr. Sydney Ceruto is the founder of MindLAB Neuroscience and the pioneer of Real-Time Neuroplasticity™ — a methodology that rewires the neural pathways driving behavior, decisions, and emotional response, in the live moment the brain is primed to change. She works with a small number of individuals, applying twenty-six years of neuroscience to the patterns that ordinary approaches leave intact.
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The neuroscience
Dr. Ceruto’s work is grounded in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience — the brain’s threat-detection circuitry and the amygdala, the default mode network, neuroplasticity, and the dopamine systems that govern motivation and reward. Her focus is the mechanics of how patterns become hardwired into neural pathways, and how those pathways can be deliberately retrained.
Real-Time Neuroplasticity™ identifies the specific pathway driving a problem and rewires it in real time — producing measurable shifts in weeks rather than years. It is neuroscience applied as advisory: present in the decisions, pressures, and moments where change actually has to hold, with the real pattern usually identified within the first one or two conversations.
A behavioral pattern is not a character flaw. It is a neural pathway — and neural pathways can be retrained.
Areas of focus
- Behavioral & cognitive neuroscience
- Neuroplasticity & pathway rewiring
- The amygdala & threat response
- The default mode network
- Dopamine, motivation & reward
- Decision-making under pressure
Academic background
Neuroscience Advisor · Founder & CEO, MindLAB Neuroscience
- PhD in Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience — New York University
- Master’s in Clinical Psychology — Yale University
- Master’s in Business Psychology — Yale University
- Lecturer, Wharton Executive Development Program — University of Pennsylvania
- 26+ years in neuroscience
Published work
The Dopamine Code
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 (October 2026) — her framework for the dopamine architecture behind motivation, reward, and the patterns that willpower alone cannot shift.
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