Heavy, not brcause we're talking science but because the writer didn't even try. Being a neuroscientist I'd say he knew about 12 minute attention span rule.
Why not read books in this genre and see how to mash reseach with interesting anecdotes and give book a personality.

“We all agreed,” Oksana said through a scowl. “We all believed.” “You believed because I asked you to,” Michio said. “This is my fault.” “Now,” Laura said, “Michi? What‘s the magic word?” Against her will, Michio laughed. It was an old joke. A part of what made her family her family. “The magic word is oops ,” she said. And then a moment later, “Oops.”

It was tough love, served in multiple concise chapters. Autobiographical elements add to the credibility of writing.
This book is not your run-of-the-mill kind of self-help rambling. It's a new wine in new bottle kind of book.

People who enjoy the struggles of a gym are the ones who run triathlons and have chiseled abs and can bench-press a small house.

Sure, the story kicks off with the deaths of thousands of people, but god forbid there be cussing in it, right?
The Illuminae Group

Home is the place that when you have to go there, they have to take you in.