La trampa de la emoción : Neurociencia para recuperar la razón y proteger el cerebro en la era del caos

We live in an age that glorifies emotion and casts suspicion on reason. We are encouraged to "feel more and think less", as if feeling were the solution to all personal, social, and political problems. But what if this emotional exaltation were, in reality, a trap? Drawing on advances in neuroscience, "The Emotion Trap" dismantles deeply ingrained myths and reveals an uncomfortable truth: it is not emotion that makes us human, but the capacity to think beyond it. When we relinquish this capacity and fall into the uncritical exaltation of emotion, we weaken our most sophisticated and distinctive tool: the prefrontal cortex, the brain system that allows us to reflect, plan, regulate impulses, and make decisions that benefit us individually and as a society. And that also leads us to enjoy life more fully and deeply. Far from pitting reason against emotion, Nuria Martín Muyo explains in this brilliant essay why today more than ever emotion needs to be guided by reason so that it does not become noise, manipulation and illness (emotional, mental and also cerebral) and offers the keys to understanding how the brain works and recovering something essential: the ability to think calmly in a world that pushes us to react without reflection.