RD&T contributing author, Rick Hanson, shares 7 interesting ways the brain inclines the mind to joy. 1. The mind and the brain are mainly (and perhaps entirely) a single unified…...

Humanity Upgrade explores the most vital issue of our time. We are in the midst of the greatest transformation in human history. As the pace of change approaches the speed…...

The following sentences are from the first chapter of the book I am working on, and they were the hardest ones to write, especially when overcoming the inner cruiser: There…...

The extent that you are doing victim-thinking is the extent that you create your own suffering. One thing that is certain is that we all do this at some level,…...

Whatever triggered your oxytocin in youth built a pathway that turns it on today. Food is usually linked to that circuit because it’s linked to your early social experience. If…...

The joy of food is one of your first experiences in life. A newborn baby enjoys a surge of dopamine when it first tastes milk. The baby doesn’t know what…...

Anxiety is natural. Calm is learned. Fear helped our ancestors survive in a dangerous world, so we’ve inherited a brain good at fear. It releases threat chemicals even when you’re actually safe. Here are seven reasons…...

Technology has changed our lives in many ways; the health industry has benefited greatly from these innovations. Breakthroughs in screening techniques and equipment allow us to combine Western medicine with…...

Part Two of this series on the Meaning Crisis explores four fundamental questions about the meaning of life: Who am I? Where am I? Why am I here? What am I here to do?…...

Dr. Maya Sarkisyan provides ways to enhance your brain performance with a biohack. I don’t know about you, but my brain feels tired of sorting through all the information, and…...