Your brain isn't a single decision-making machine, but it's a dynamic battleground. Neuroscience reveals that what we often call “the brain” is actually three distinct systems that evolved over ...

When I was a social work graduate student, one of my professors had the class perform an interesting exercise. For five minutes, she instructed us to clench our fists, close our eyes tightly and sit ...

If the brainstem is survival and the cortex is sophistication, then the limbic system is poetry.

The reptilian brain is the part of ourselves we share with the creatures who preceded us on this evolutionary climb. It's the brain that controls the millions of interactions required to walk up a ...