Introduction -- The neural basis of Emotional Intelligence -- The prefrontal corex, self-awareness and emotional regulation -- Circuitry for motivation and empathy in the brain -- Handling emotional challenges -- Stress hormones and health -- Emotional styles: hair triggers, intensity, and recovery time -- How emotional styles interact -- Childhood shapes emotional circuitry -- Development risks of toxic emotions -- Learning social and emotional skills sculpts the brain -- Happiness and the well-balanced prefontal cortex -- Olympic level meditators -- Compassion is a state of mental readiness -- Training the mind, changing the brain -- The Attentional Blink -- Neural Education and ADHD.
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