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Rethinking relationships: Insights from neuroscience offer a new model of client engagement

Explore insights from neuroscience that can help advisors and firms rethink what it means to be 'in relationship" with clients and families.

Key Takeaways

As brain imaging has improved, neuroscientists have identified two large-scale neural networks in the human brain: the analytic network and the empathetic network.
The critical insight from this work is that these two neural networks function antagonistically to one another, meaning when one network is activated, the other is shut down.
This thought leadership explores insights from neuroscience that can help advisors and firms rethink what it means to be "in relationship" with clients and families.

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