Sublime

the field of depression, psychological stress transduces to biological change, and vice versa.

6 The emotional brain is at the heart of the central nervous system, and its key task is to look out for your welfare.

also read Descartes’ Error, by the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio.22 Damasio had noticed an unusual pattern of symptoms in patients who had suffered brain damage to a specific part of the brain—the ventromedial (i.e., bottom-middle) prefrontal cortex (abbreviated vmPFC; it’s the region just behind and above the bridge of the nose). Their emotionali

the socio-emotional theory of friendship (which suggests that we become more and more selective as we grow older to focus on those few emotionally valuable friendships)

Harvard Medical School was and is at the forefront of the neuroscience revolution,

We all know of people who have had an emotional crisis many years ago and, to this day, have not recovered. It has totally colored their life, and they have paid a big price for their lack of know-how in handling the underlying emotions.

E Is for Emotional Reactivity

Without emotional understanding from a caring adult, a child can feel distress or even a sense of shame.

Study after study shows that having a good support network constitutes the single most powerful protection against becoming traumatized. Safety and terror are incompatible.