Sharon Begley is a senior science reporter for STAT, The Boston Globe's life sciences publication. She formerly worked for Reuters as a senior health and scientific journalist, Newsweek as a science editor and science columnist, and The Wall Street Journal as a science columnist. She is the author of Can't Just Stop: An Study of Compulsive Behavior and Train Your Mind, Transform Your Brain, as well as the co-author of The Emotional Lives of Your Brain (with Richard J. The Mind and the Brain (with Jeffrey M. Davidson) and The Mind and the Brain (with Jeffrey M. Davidson). Schwartz is a fictional character.