The one single biggest irrationality in business decision-making comes back to the one underlying paradigm that is as common as it is incorrect – that the cognitive mind or the conscious mind ...

I recommend to all readers a small, poetic and profound book about the neuroscience of attachment called A General Theory of Love (2001). It had a powerful impact on me. It explains a paradox about ...

It was a conversation like dozens of others that I’ve had. A 14-year-old teen had just gotten into trouble at school for the silliest of reasons, and when threatened with suspension he just kept ...

In a previous study, we reported that inactivation of the medial septum or the hippocampus by muscimol, a GABA A receptor agonist, potentiated the effects of a general anesthetic. In this study, we ...

Dementia is the term that most commonly comes to mind when one thinks of Alzheimer's, yet there is one more form of cognitive ...

The reptilian brain, the oldest of the three brain systems, consists of the brain stem and cerebellum. It controls the body’s vital functions such as heart rate, breathing, body temperature and ...

Have you ever wondered why you jump when you’re startled? Maybe you wonder why you have a harder time handling stress and anxiety than your friends and family do. Part of the reason might lie in your ...

What happens when several decades of moldy serial-killer clichés are artlessly juxtaposed with an equal number of rancid hard-boiled-cop clichés? If you really want to find out, watch The Limbic ...