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Brain Asymmetry

I use the general term brain to encompass all of this wonderful complexity of the body proper as it intimately intertwines with its chemical environment and with the portion of neural tissue in the head.

Daniel J. Siegel • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

You’ve got a lot of forces in you, a lot of sub-personalities and competing currents; a lot of patterns, schemas, habits, and memories; a lot of urges and energies, eros and ire. Each of us is less of a consistent individual than an ecosystem, thronging with profligate life.

River Kenna • Rewilding the Psyche

People don’t lie to you about who they are – they lie to themselves in your presence

Lisa Feldman Barrett • Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain | Lex Fridman Podcast #140

BESIDES BEING BORN with plenty of oxytocin receptors, how can one attain a high degree of empathy? One answer, I believe, is to be depressed.

Nassir Ghaemi • A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion

Tiago Forte fortelabs.co

Our mirror neurons register their inner experience, and our own bodies make internal adjustments to whatever we notice. Just so, the muscles of our own faces give others clues about how calm or excited we feel, whether our heart is racing or quiet, and whether we’re ready to pounce on them or run away.

Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Beautifully Biased Brains

Quirks and discoveries about our brains, how we perceive intelligence, and why we can't seem to ever fully understand it.

Charlie Gedeon and • 13 cards

Those new disciplines are neuroscience, the study of how the brain supports mental processes; developmental psychopathology, the study of the impact of adverse experiences on the development of mind and brain; and interpersonal neurobiology, the study of how our behavior influences the emotions, biology, and mind-sets of those around us.