This month’s executive function skill of focus is emotion regulation. As a reminder, executive function skills are brain-based skills that help individuals get things done. For many neurodivergent ...

Nietzsche’s famous quote, “What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger,” holds less often than, “What we avoid makes us weaker.” Emotion regulation makes us stronger. Put simply, emotion regulation is ...

Recent research published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships provides evidence that our early relationship blueprints shape our risk of developing an addiction to our romantic ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The ability to regulate our emotions is ...

A new study is among the first of its kind to identify brain regions unique to emotion regulation in the human brain, providing novel therapeutic approaches. A recent study led by Dartmouth College ...

A new study is among the first of its kind to separate activity relating to emotion generation from emotion regulation in the human brain. The findings provide new insights that could help inform ...

Below, Marc Brackett shares five key insights from his new book, Dealing with Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want. Emotion regulation is one of the most important skills for both ...

We’ve all had moments when we wished we’d handled our emotions differently—whether in the classroom, a staff meeting, or at home. And we’ve all seen students overwhelmed by big emotions, unsure how to ...

A survey of over 1,400 adults with ADHD examined the relationship between emotion regulation and sleep disturbances. The ...

The field of autonomic neuroscience provides a powerful framework to understand how physiological regulation underlies maternal mental health and perinatal ...