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Over the process of evolution, the human brain tripled in size, mostly gaining girth in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), giving us our big foreheads. In this case, it’s…
We’ve come a long way in the science of happiness and have a pretty good idea of what happy looks like in your brain these days. It’s now…
On the Best Brain Possible Facebook page, I’ve learned from experience to be very choosy about any posts on depression because people can get really passionate and colorfully expressive about…
Whether you’re aware of it or not, your brain is programmed to try to predict the future, and it specializes in pattern detection, threat anticipation, and storytelling. In…
Everywhere I turn there’s bad news. A 22-year-old man in CA goes on a killing spree because he’s upset that he’s still a virgin. More than 200 girls were…