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54 Wake Forest L. Rev. 931 (2019)
Windmills of Your Mind: Understanding the Neurobiology of Emotion

handle is hein.journals/wflr54 and id is 963 raw text is: WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND: UNDERSTANDING THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF EMOTION Debra Austin* Intelligence has been parsed into categories including general intelligence, which describes cognitive capacity, and emotional intelligence, describing social competency. Perhaps the most important new form of intelligence that lawyers can cultivate is neuro-intelligence, which is an understanding of the most important tool a lawyer must deploy-the brain. Emotional intelligence can help us understand how emotions that arise in the brain are often experienced in the windmills of the mind as words that jangle in your head. This Article describes the importance of developing mental strength and challenges lawyers to enhance their understanding of the role emotion plays in their relationships with colleagues, clients, employees, and constituents. Part II, Brain Literacy, describes key components of the emotional and thinking brains. The process of memory formation is illustrated in Part III, Learning and Memory. Part IV, Stress and Cognition, outlines the harmful impacts of stress on brain health and mental performance. The brain's automated response to emotional stimuli is detailed in Part V, Emotion. Recent research results are reviewed in Part VI, Law Students and Lawyers are at Risk for Impaired Well- being. Part VII, Emotion Regulation, explores methods for responding to emotion and the difference between survival and attachment emotions. Part VIII, Emotion and Decision- Making, depicts the process that helps us determine what outfit to wear, what rewards we are strong enough to defer to meet our long-term goals, and how public policy is shaped by emotion. Finally, Part IX, Interventions to Strengthen the Mind, links mental strength to happiness, explains three obstacles to developing mental strength that are commonly * J.D., Ph.D., Professor of the Practice, University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Many thanks to fellow traveler and music lover Professor Deborah L. Borman, University of Arkansas Little Rock Bowen School of Law, for her many years of friendship, mentoring, and support. This Article is dedicated to her because everyone needs someone they can count on, day or night, and in joy or despair.

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