On the Origins of Rage and How it Affects Your Brain

On a recent business trip in Barcelona, neurobiologist R. Douglas Fields and his daughter were pick-pocketed while exiting a metro station. Seconds after he realized he had been robbed, he attacked the perpetrator before he could even think about what he had done. In Why We Snap: Understanding the Rage Circuit in Your Brain he explains how our evolutionary hard wiring for survival is at odds with how we are expected to behave in modern society. Even though our brains misfire he will touch on how to recognize the signs of our primordial response to rage and react accordingly.