Pioneering neuroscience-driven personal & professional development. Transforming how people optimize their brains for lasting change.
Enhancing decision-making, resilience & emotional intelligence for peak performance in life and business. MindLAB Neuroscience: Personal & Professional Development Coaching
Recognizing the limits of life coaches, and the ineffective methodologies they implement, Dr. Sydney Ceruto pioneered a groundbreaking fusion of neuroscience and higher level life coaching. We offer custom-tailored coaching in
personal, professional, and relationship domains. Our singular methodology frees clients from unproductive patterns, fostering advantageous thinking and behavior that lasts. Dr. Ceruto's expertise attracts a selective clientele, including industry leaders, company visionaries, entertainment professionals and athletes. Experience rapid breakthroughs and sustainable transformation with MindLAB's unparalleled neuroscience-based life coaching.
25/06/2025
Break Free from Old Patterns: The Power of Neuroplasticity Coaching
Traditional therapy helped me understand my past, but neuroplasticity coaching changed my future. In my new blog,
I explain how science-based coaching uses the brain’s natural ability to adapt for rapid, measurable results in personal and professional development. My client’s journey from stress and self-doubt to unstoppable confidence is proof that your brain can change—and so can your life.
Discover the neuroscience behind true transformation and why life coaching rooted in brain science is the key to lasting success.
24/06/2025
Why Taking the High Road Changes Your Brain (and Your Life!)
Ever wondered why choosing kindness over conflict feels so powerful? 🧠✨
In my latest blog, I dive into the neuroscience behind taking the high road—and how it literally rewires your brain for resilience, happiness, and lasting success. Discover how mastering your emotions can transform every relationship and unlock your true potential.
Ready to elevate your mindset? Click to read and let me know your thoughts below!
Explore the neuroscience of taking the high road and real-life strategies for lasting change. Learn the incredible benefits of a deep sense of morality & ethics.
23/06/2025
Experience the Power of Flow: Transform Your Life with Neuroscience
I’m excited to share my new blog on the neuroscience of a flow state! Learn how understanding the science behind flow can unlock new levels of motivation, focus, and well-being.
I utilize proven strategies from neuroscience and life coaching to help you achieve mastery in personal and professional development. Ready to experience more joy and success?
Please read my latest post and start your transformation today! https://mindlabneuroscience.com/neuroscience-of-a-flow-state/
17/06/2025
Unlock Readiness for Change: My Proven Neuroscience Approach
Are you struggling with resistance to change in your career or personal life? My latest blog post explores how I utilize neuroscience and life coaching to transform hesitation into readiness for change.
Find out how you can enhance your professional development, overcome obstacles, and thrive in any transition. Your next breakthrough starts here!
Resistance to change can become readiness with simple neuroscientific strategies. Find actionable ways to boost engagement and succeed in any workplace transition.
16/06/2025
Transform Your Life with My Dopamine Optimization Menu!
Are you ready to experience the benefits of a personalized dopamine optimization menu? In my latest blog, I share how I utilize neuroscience and life coaching to help clients unlock motivation, boost focus, and achieve genuine personal and professional growth.
💪 Built for Endurance: The Brain’s Blueprint for True Resilience
I've been exploring how mental toughness is actually built in the brain—and not by “willpower” alone.
🧠 Here’s what caught my attention:
The prefrontal cortex strengthens with every act of resistance.
Dopamine shifts from instant pleasure to deep, meaningful reward when I delay the dopamine hit.
Neuroplasticity means my daily choices literally rewire my brain, making me more resilient with each challenge.
My anterior cingulate cortex learns to tolerate internal conflict rather than giving up.
The insula starts telling me: “It’s hard, but I’ve been here before”—instead of screaming “stop!”
Bottom line: the brain isn't fixed—it’s built on habit. Every time I lean into discomfort, I’m training my resilience.
⚡ Want to rewire your brain for more discipline, grit, and mental strength? This post will show you how.
09/06/2025
Unlock Your Brain’s Potential: How Neurons Work for Personal and Professional Development
Ever wondered how neurons work and why understanding your brain is the secret to fundamental transformation? In my latest blog, I reveal the science behind neural communication and its impact on personal and professional development, life coaching, and the pursuit of your goals.
Discover how neurons work to shape human thought, emotion, and achievement. Explore the science behind neural communication, brain evolution, and personal growth.
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I began my training and education in psychology, earning a bachelor's degree in Behavioral Science, shortly after tragically losing both my parents. I was under 20 years old at that time and an only child with no extended family whatsoever. It was a devastating time that nearly broke me emotionally. I was feeling completely alone, inconsolably anxious and deeply depressed. Deciding to continue to pursue my education in psychology, helped me to heal and grow, and I became obsessed about learning as much as I could about the mind-brain connection. I went on to get 2 master’s degrees, one in Behavioral Psychologyand the other in Business Psychology, then continued on to earn a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience.
Over the years following my parent’s death, I went to many different therapists / coaches and spent tens of thousands of dollars looking for help and ways to end my suffering. Quite honestly, I never felt they helped me in any significant way. I actually think my symptoms worsened and I became overwhelmed with a palpable sense of hopelessness. I knew I had to push forward because I genuinely believed there had to be a more effective approach to help me “live again”.
Over the ensuing years, I started to meet people who were feeling the same way about traditional forms of therapy and coaching. When their doctors couldn’t figure out an effective way to help them, they suggested antipsychotic medications or antidepressants and mood stabilizers. It was truly staggering how these professionals gave up on their patients so willingly and were so quick to dole out some really serious medications. As I was getting better and better, these people were giving up, actually resigning themselves to the fact that they had to live like this; depressed, unfulfilled in their careers, anxious, emotionally out of control and medicated……This pulled at my heart strings and my passion to utilize our own brain to heal ourselves, grew even stronger!
Quickly thereafter, I found neuroscience and a modality that utilized our brains capability to change and adapt, that could genuinely help people. That belief was the impetus for how and why I chose to break the mold and implement this cutting-edge approach. I later became a Certified Life Coach so I could help clients in a less traditional and antiquated manner. My goal was, and still is, to teach clients to utilize all of what I have learned in a more practical and impactful way. This approach has helped them improve the quality of their lives, without having to spend countless years on the couch of their therapist or coach.
I have owned my practice NYC MindLAB for 19 years and have worked with many Fortune 500 companies as their in-house psychologist and executive coach. I write for several publications and I am a member of Forbes Executive Coaches Council, where I write and speak regularly. Over the past two decades, I have donated thousands of hours providing mental health services to socio-economically challenged communities and small businesses.
Over the last 2 decades of treating clients, I am certain that the key to tipping the scales toward the positive is understanding how neuroplasticity works and what it responds to. From there, I take a directed effort to help my clients consciously make positive physiological changes in their brains. I have designed a 90 day program that does just that. My clients can put their full trust in this program, knowing its efficacy is based in hard science.
I have an avid intellect, a keen understanding of human nature and an uncanny ability to deeply connect with my clients. I am hands on, available and accessible, intuitive, compassionate and honest.
I have lived in NYC for 17 years and still consider it the best city in the world. I love to travel and have done so extensively. I enjoy dining out and enjoying great food and wine, I consider it my form of "entertainment"! I have one son who is a senior at Princeton University and plans to attend Columbia Law in 2020. We have 2 dogs with whom I am utterly obsessed!
