NEUROSCIENCE OF HAPPINESS
This review emphasizes four novel constituents of well-being and their underlying neural bases : 1) sustained positive emotions; 2) recovery from negative emotion (resilience); 3) empathy, altruism, and pro-social behavior; 4) mind-wandering, mindfulness, and emotion-captured attention. The neural circuits that underlie each of these four constituents are partially separable, though there is some overlap. The circuits underlying the four constituents of well-being all exhibit plasticity; they can be transformed. So, happiness and well-being may be regarded as skills that can be enhanced through cognitive training.