In the past few decades, we’ve made substantial progress in understanding the science of happiness. Positive psychology has a pretty good understanding of how happy happens in your…
Until a few decades ago, science told us that our brains were capable of growth and change in childhood and that it was pretty much downhill from there. Now…
When you hear about neuroplasticity, it’s usually in conjunction with remarkable, positive brain and life change. Neuroplasticity is an amazingly powerful ability of the brain to alter its…
In the last few decades — heck in the last year — science has been churning out radical new discoveries about the human brain and mental health which…
Every emotion you feel can be mapped to measurable biological activity in your brain — especially in the limbic system and prefrontal cortex. Over time, your repetitive emotional…
In the 1980s, researchers at The University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) confirmed that the human brain remodels itself following the “Hebbian rule.” Donald Hebb, a Canadian…
Your life shapes your brain. Because of neuroplasticity, the ability of your brain to change both form and function in response to your experiences, behaviors, and thinking, your…
If there was a free pill you could take daily that would make you happier, healthier, and permanently change your brain for the better, you’d be crazy not…
Mindfulness is intersecting with the leading-edge of neuroscience. Looking at the ancient practice through a scientific lens has been labeled “contemplative neuroscience” and is turning out some extraordinarily robust…
Your brain is neuroplastic which means it changes its physical form and function based on the input it receives over your lifetime. Your experiences, behaviors and even thoughts literally…
Your brain is capable of change until the day you die. Contrary to what used to be believed, your brain isn’t hardwired at any age. Neuroplasticity In fact, your…
Your mind has a mind of its own and races around at one hundred miles an hour jumping from one thing to the next. Sometimes, the random thoughts…
