It’s well known that attitudes, emotions and feelings affect our body in a variety of ways. For example, feelings of hopelessness affect the body’s hormone system and change the chemical flows within our brains. Different emotional states a…

Decreased communication between emotional and executive centers may contribute   Finding a breakdown in vmPFC connections was particularly intriguing to Koenigs. Neurologists have long observed that after damage to this area, people can take on pe…

Even if guns were to vanish, the specter that haunts our young men would still hover in silence, darkly.A partial solution to these toxic circumstances could be a coordinated cultivation of what might be called an empathic habit. Most people surely fel…

One of the most essential aspects of critical thinking is empathy, the ability to see things through another person’s point of view.Authors of The Whole Brain Child provide guidance on how to teach children about considering o…