The brain comes in 3 functional layers - the reptilian brain, the limbic system, and the cerebral cortex. The reptilian brain controls the regulatory systems in your body like hormones ...

The release of Determined, a new book by renowned Stanford professor of primate behavior and neuroscience Robert M. Sapolsky, has catapulted him into ... or as a measure of the damage that their own ...

What Is the Limbic System? The limbic system is a part of the brain consisting of several components such as the hippocampus and amygdala and serving many functions within the body. While we ...

That’s good, says Stanford University neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky. That’s progress. But there’s still a long way to go. After more than 40 years studying humans and other primates ...

It might also be liberating. Robert Sapolsky, biologist and neurologist at Stanford University, stopped believing in free will at age 13.Credit...Damon Casarez for The New York Times Supported by ...

Robert Sapolsky ... of Agreement Between Sapolsky and Mitchell Sapolsky and Mitchell both follow the widely accepted view about the evolution of the brain and nervous system.

But they are denied by Robert ... system with “quarantine,” the comfortable confinement of those who are a danger to others, until they aren’t. But there are problems here. First, Sapolsky ...