Oxytocin is lauded for how it promotes warmth, generosity, social bonding, cooperation, trust, and compassion.

If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is an inability to appreciate sunsets.

The regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it's the environment that regulates genes.

What happened during the minutes before? That's the realm of sensory stimuli of the nervous system.

If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to go to work on your birthday.

The most important point of [Susan] Fiske's work is that it provides a taxonomy for our differing feelings about different Thems - sometimes fear, sometimes ridicule, sometimes contemptuous pity, sometimes savagery.