On “Psychology Behind the Headlines,” hosts Jessica Reyes, Patricia Wu, and guest therapist Ryan Heapy discuss on the research from Dartmouth College about how the brain controls our emotions.
Your emotional control center
The brain’s prefrontal cortex plays a key role in managing our feelings.
Hope for better treatments
This research could be the first step in developing therapies and even medications that directly target the brain’s emotion regulation systems.
Tools for today
While we await new treatments, therapies like DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) can provide skills and strategies to improve emotional control.
