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 ...

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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 ...

In Don’t Listen to Your Lizard Brain, I explained how we all have a reptilian brain inside us that generates primitive drives such as hunger, sexuality, and territoriality, and that we can use our ...