Managing your anger isn't about suppressing your emotions or becoming Buddha overnight. It's about adding a few strategic pauses and techniques to your emotional repertoire. These skills don't require ...

It's crazy how our brains can hijack our day—one moment you're fine, the next you're fuming about something that probably won't matter next week. But on the bright side, your brain is remarkably ...

July 11 -- FRIDAY, July 10 (HealthDay News) -- Anger and other forms of mental stress cause dilation of the neck's carotid arteries and a rush of blood to the brain in healthy people, but this doesn't ...

We should not argue when we’re mad because we might end up shouting things we don’t really mean and making a big mess. But due to the inner workings of our brain, not only are we more likely to lose ...

We used to think that the left brain controlled your thinking and that the right brain controlled your heart. But neuroscientists have learned that it’s a lot more complicated. In 2007, an influential ...

I called the first two years of my life after my brain was injured the honeymoon period. In this period, I believed absolutely in what I was told and hadn't yet fully grasped how catastrophic my ...

What does forgiveness look like in the brain? As a neuroscientist, I am always looking for the biological underpinnings of mental processes—not as an effort to distill mystery into molecules, but to ...