Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology of what makes us us.

Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.

Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side

We’ve evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.

It's great to have a buff frontal cortex to do that harder thing - for example, help a person in need rather buy some useless, shiny gee-gaw.

Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.

An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.