There are many temptations to organize our life around the experience of earlier trauma. But that may short-change the future—which starts by our envisioning something better.
Old-school neuroscientists have ascribed to the brain a singular and dominant importance that has long discouraged research into differences between brain and mind.
Tools such as the frisson device help us understand links between interoception (our sense of our body's internal state) and interoception-related disorders like addiction.
For people considering having children, avoiding the harmful effects of stress will make a big difference to the development of their children’s brains, minds and personality.
The heart acts as a sophisticated information encoding and processing center able to learn, remember, and make functional decisions independently of the brain.
Cases of hydrocephaly provide convincing support for the argument that the size of a human brain is unrelated to its information content, intelligence, or capacities.
Laughter is a long-overlooked mind–body modality that is easily practiced to help create and sustain benefits to the body as well as create a more optimistic outlook on life.
Considering the important part that the “the thoughtful bowel” plays in our behavior and thinking, when somebody says, “I had this gut feeling,” don’t reflexly discount it.
We do not generally think of somatic cells as intelligent or storing data other than those relevant to their function. Recent scientific findings teach us otherwise.
It is comforting for the donors’ families to see evidence of their loved ones giving someone a chance at life and to know that a part of them lives on within the recipient.
Only by recognizing the many pathways that connect the brain to the rest of the body are we going to make progress in treating age-related dementia and Alzheimer's.