Alex Korb's Blog

There's a trick to changing a fake smile.

Racism is so insidious and pervasive partly because of how your brain processes empathy for people of other races. Here's how you can understand your biases and deal with them.

Humans shape technologies, but our lives are then shaped by the technologies we create - for better or worse. Here's how to protect your mind and brain.

According to the comedian Louis CK, “everything is amazing right now and nobody’s happy.” And it's because of dopamine signaling in a particularly important brain region.

Feeling out of control amps up the brain's anxiety circuit. Understanding your own brain's response to uncontrollability can put you in the driver's seat.

It’s time to put your brain in the right mode for the New Year. Here are some simple tricks.

I used to think that being happier was all about teaching yourself to think more positively. But often the most powerful path to increasing happiness is to strengthen the right brain circuits by using these five simple neuroscience tips.

These days we're inundated with messages about the power of positive thinking, but sometimes positive thinking can actually interfere with success. Fortunately, there is another way.

When trying to accomplish something great, if you check in too often with your progress, then you can be getting in your own way. I had to learn this the hard way, but, fortunately, there is a way out.

Watching Pixar's Inside-Out, I was moved through a full range of emotions, but also, as a neuroscientist, I was impressed with the nuanced depiction of complex brain functions that the movie depicted. Understanding these can help you better understand yourself: