There’s no doubt that the human brain plays a key role in our behavior. But do all our behaviors start with the brain?

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part ...

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They also had more interaction between the parts of the brain associated with altruism and happiness, and they reported higher levels of happiness after the experiment was over. <!-- /wp ...

There is a Chinese saying that goes: “If you want happiness for an hour ... we now know that giving activates the same parts of the brain that are stimulated by food and sex.

There’s a specific part of the brain that controls the meditation techniques and the slow breathing in us. A recent study led by neuroscientist Sung Han states that a new type of anti-anxiety ...