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Your Brain on Happiness – 2021-04-27
This will be a fascinating program on brain research on happiness (and other emotions), how to change your brain, and how the brain changes your health.
We all know how different it feels to be happy – or otherwise – and it’s all in your head. In your brain, that is.Our gray matter is obviously quite emotional – highs, lows, and everything in between. Sometimes the change in mindset happens surprisingly quickly.
Given the incredible recent advancements in studying the brain, have researchers found a happiness region in the brain?
Can you actually change your brain to make yourself happier? How?!?
Can mediation actually fundamentally change the brain?
Robin Nusslock, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology Neuroscience at Northwestern University, will explain how happiness affects physical health, and what’s happening when happiness goes awry and turns to depression or addiction.
If we’re lucky, Dr. Nusslock will tell us about psychoneuroimmunology and how that research relates to COVID-19. Then you can knowledgeably drop that term in casual conversation to wow people with the size of your brain!
We’ll allow plenty of time for Q&A so join us for what will certainly be an enlightening conversation!
Space is limited. To receive Zoom link, register today!
https://BrainOnHappiness.eventbrite.com
Free with suggested donation $10
Dr. Robin Nusslock is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Northwestern University, where he serves as Director of the Affective & Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory. His research examines how the brain creates emotion and how stress gets under the skin to affect people’s mental and physical health. Nusslock has published over seventy scientific articles and book chapters on the neuroscience of emotion and health and his work has been featured in both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
