Teenagers don’t have the best reputation. They’re often called reckless and immature or written off as self-obsessed adult-haters. But as neuropsychiatrist Daniel Siegel watched his own kids make ...

Siegel, co-director of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Center, blends personal experience with scientific research, attempting to capture the spiritual as well as the physiological phenomenon of ...

During a summer vacation on a lake in Wisconsin, I look at my son and daughter, my nieces and nephews, and soak it all in. Life is a passing of these moments, I know, ones we cannot hold onto. A ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. When Dr. Siegel told us about how the mind is not just a function of the brain but also social and cultural interactions, it ...

Daniel J. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, a co-investigator at the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development, and co-director of the Mindful Awareness ...

Siegel (Parenting from the Inside Out) combines Western neuroscience with Eastern meditation in an exciting exploration of how a troubled mind can right itself. Drawing on current science and case ...

The teenage brain can be a mystery to adults. UCLA psychiatry professor Daniel Siegel debunks myths about adolescence to show how teens learn new skills, connect with others and demonstrate limitless ...