Women tend to recall the details of an emotionally competent stimulus, using more of their left hemisphere to do the processing. Men tend to recall the gist aspects of an emotionally competent stimulus, using more of their right hemisphere to do the processing.

A third or more of the brain is devoted to visual processing, not true of any other sense. We have color vision and it is truly binocular. This sophistication is not true of other senses, such as smell, where many genes are actually mutated and no longer work.

One of the greatest predictors of academic success that exist is the emotional stability of the home. So if parents are interested in education reform, they should also be interested in how they conduct themselves in front of their children. If they are homeschooling their kids, they are even more exposed, so the idea is even more important.

The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss.

To improve short-term memory significantly, reduce the stress in your life. And choose your parents wisely.

Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.

Not even identical twins can have the exact same experiences, and their brains are not wired the same way.