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Health policy expert Ezekiel Emanuel says you don’t have to be obsessed to live a healthy life. Wellness can, and should, be something you enjoy.
Joe Nucci, author of "Psychobabble," joins us to discuss how the misuse of psychological language risks blurring the lines between everyday problems and clinical diagnoses.
A preview of the latest novel by the National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson.
John Green opens up about his struggle to remain hopeful while writing about suffering and injustice.
Neuroscience supports the notion that mindfulness and meditation should become essential assets in our workspaces.
A powerful psychedelic long used in African rituals shows surprising promise for treating traumatic brain injury and PTSD.
When your life’s truth and the reality you live become out of sync, you risk falling into an "anxiety spiral."
"The amount of interest is enormous," says anesthesiologist Boris Heifets. "People are dropping in and coming out of the woodwork, trying to understand how to do this."
Can laboratories become more humane, or is it time to end animal research altogether?
Manipulating a signaling pathway in mice reversed their anxiety — and offers hope for a new class of anti-anxiety medications for humans.
Mental health awareness is more widespread than ever. Some professionals think it may have gone overboard — especially on TikTok.
Sound may be an overlooked tool for boosting well-being.
Recent research sheds light on how the brain overgeneralizes fear, causing people to be afraid of harmless situations.
Public mass shooters almost always have worldviews shaped by the "3 Rs": rage, resentment, and revenge.
Many still consider hypnosis more of a cheap magician’s trick than legitimate clinical medicine.
Research suggests that to maintain a healthy brain, we should tend our gut microbiome.
One dose of ibogaine was shown to dramatically reduce depression and PTSD.
Various environmental phenomena can play tricks on our brain.
Chronic pain is often driven by brain processes that can be reprogrammed.
Recent high-profile instances of fraud in psychology have led some to wonder if there's anything useful about the field at all.
Medical psychologist Catherine Monk explains how prenatal mental care benefits both mothers and babies.
A brief look at the six-decade challenge to psychiatry.
Now that the DSM lists severe hoarding as a disorder apart from OCD, psychologists are asking what explains its prevalence.
"I am not sick at all but everyone around me becomes sick."
"I thought strangers knew who I was and were whispering about me as I walked by."
“It is healthy and normal to be afraid of death."
Boys are four times as likely as girls to develop autism. Girls are nearly twice as likely to experience depression. The immune system may be a player in these and other brain-health disparities.
Since 2012, the amount of time that teenagers spend socializing in person has plummeted. Is it a coincidence that depression is more common?
A series of charts shows how prevalent different mental illnesses are across the globe — but how we define them matters.
We will have a better shot at improving our lives once we come to understand, know, and love the people we will one day become.