We don’t have access to choice when we perceive a threat. And when it comes to threats, our nervous systems don’t ...

Siddiqi et al. identified lesion locations that reduced probability of PTSD. These were connected to a brain circuit in which increased connectivity was associated with PTSD, thus revealing a PTSD ...

That means in our teenage years the emotional parts of our brain, like the amygdala, the limbic system, they're a bit too eager to react. It's like we have an emotional mind where we feel things ...

This rapid neural growth means parts of the brain need to completely ... “Because the pre-frontal cortex is very compromised, the limbic system becomes more active.” The limbic system is ...

Can a bit of bendiness and mindful breathing really fix all our aches and pains? It might be time to start up the sun ...

I’m on tour at the moment with the novelist Marcel Theroux, who surprised and delighted me the other day by commenting in our shared dressing ...

Schopenhauer’s theory was that the will is so ineffable that the nonverbal language of music alone could grant access to this ...

Your Brain On Lies Three key parts of our brain are stimulated when ... of dishonesty due to its intellectual role. Second, the limbic system due to the anxiety (hi, amygdala!) ...

That sense of threat triggers the limbic system. The limbic system is awesome: it conveys information to us without it having to take the long route through the more sophisticated parts of our brain.