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Your Brain on Guilt and Shame
Shame and guilt feel awful, but they do serve a good purpose: to make you be a better human.
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Cute Aggression: Why You Want to Squeeze Adorable Creatures
Scientists are trying to figure out why so many of us want to pinch babies’ chubby cheeks and squeeze adorable puppies.
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Fear and Loathing in the Borderlands of the Brain
The junction between the cortex and the brainstem highlights the center of our emotions.
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Becoming Afraid: How Creepy-Crawlies Turn Creepy
We may be hardwired to look at spiders and snakes differently than other critters, but we aren’t born afraid of them.
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The Parenting Brain
From pregnancy to parenthood, child-rearing shapes the brain.
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The Neurobiology of Family Separation
The prolonged stress a child experiences by being separated from their parents has lasting implications for their mental health and the generations after them.
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The Neuroscience of Learning, Memory, and Emotions
Our capacity to learn and remember and to feel a range of emotions all arise from signaling in distinct regions of the brain.
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The Anatomy of Emotions
It’s hard to describe what an emotion is — let alone how many of them there are or whether everyone experiences the same ones. But we do know this: emotions arise from activity in distinct parts of the brain.
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How Does Parental Separation Affect a Child’s Brain?
Charles A. Nelson answers your questions on how separation is harmful to a child’s developing brain.
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The Brain Prize Presents: Ray Dolan
Ray Dolan, Peter Dayan, Wolfram Schultz have demonstrated how the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine helps us learn.
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Do Hurt Feelings Actually Hurt?
There’s no mistaking a broken heart for a broken bone — but our brains might look at both kinds of pain the same way.
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The Heart vs. the Brain: A PowerPoint Presentation and Activity
Where do love ballads and beautiful poetry come from? What about the fear of heights and spiders? It’s all in the brain! In this lesson, explore the wonders of emotions and the brain with your students.
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