ELAINE FOX: Author of RAINY BRAIN,SUNNY BRAIN

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: One of the world's leading experimental psychologists and an expert on the science of optimism, ELAINE FOX has spent more than twenty years studying how people interpret the world around them. Her research heralded discussion about a possible "optimism gene" and her work has been featured in a range of publications, including Nature, Science, New Scientist, The Economist, and the New York Times. In 2009, she appeared on-camera with Michael J. Fox in the documentary, "Adventures of an Incurable Optimist." In her book RAINY BRAIN, SUNNY BRAIN Fox explores the ways in which we can retrain our brains to view the world with a positive outlook.