William Stixrud, PhD, is a clinical neuropsychologist and a faculty member at Children's National and the George Washington University School of Medicine. He lectures widely on the adolescent brain, motivation, and the effects of stress, sleep deprivation, and technology overload on the brain. He is on the board of the David Lynch Foundation and is a proponent of Trascendental Meditation.
Ned Johnson is the founder of PrepMatters, a tutoring service in Washington, DC, and the coauthor of Conquering the SAT . Johnson is a sought-after speaker and teen coach for study skills, parent-teen dynamics, and anxiety management, and his work has been featured on NPR and NewsHour and in U.S. News & World Report , Time , the Washington Post , and the Wall Street Journal .