Brain Freeze!

Choking during pressure-packed performances is the worst. Sharon Begley tells us why we do it, and how to avoid it.

By Sharon Begley
April 21, 2015
Calm

Rick Perry and the 2004 New York Yankees are kindred spirits. In a debate during the 2012 Republican

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Sharon Begley

Sharon Begley, our longtime science columnist, died of cancer on January 16, 2021, at age 64. Our thoughts and good wishes go out to her family and her wide circle of colleagues, for whom she was an exemplar of the highest standards of the journalistic profession.

Sharon was a senior science writer with The Boston Globe Media Group, author of Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain, and coauthor with Richard Davidson of The Emotional Life of Your Brain.

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