This upcoming week is Mental Health Awareness Week. In its honor and in an effort to keep conversations flowing about mental health, public and private, I want to…
Music is one of the few activities where people around the globe respond in a common way. It connects all kinds different people across a myriad of cultures,…
Addiction is a disease, not a moral failing. Just like asthma is a disease of the lungs, addiction is a disease of the brain. The experts at the National Institute…
The relatively new science of epigenetics is proving that who you are is the culmination of the experiences in your life – and even those of your ancestors…
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…