Articles for tag: brain and emotions, mental well-being, neuroscience of joy, science of happiness

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The Science of Happiness: How Our Brains Create Joy and Well-being

Suhail Ahmed

  Happiness can feel like weather: sunny one day, overcast the next, with no clear forecast you can trust. Yet in labs from Boston to Berlin, scientists are uncovering a surprisingly structured biology behind our most elusive emotion. Brain scans, long-term cohort studies, and even smartphone experiments are revealing that joy is less random spark ...