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In the 1980s, some wardens started painting their cells with a shade of pink dubbed "Baker-Miller Pink."
It’s estimated that one-in-three women and one-in-five men have an episode of major depression by the age of 65.
It's common knowledge that syncing your circadian rhythm to a natural light-dark cycle could improve your health and well-being.
The serotonin theory of depression started to be widely promoted in the 1990s, coinciding with a push to prescribe more SSRIs.
NicoBoard is an app that helps parents make sense of a frightening time.
More than 20% Americans live in a state with access to a medically assisted death.
Noradrenaline-targeting drugs, including blood pressure, depression, and ADHD meds, improve Alzheimer's disease symptoms.
Should men be doing kegels?
Most American men who die by suicide do not have any known history of mental health problems. So, what is to blame?
Symbolic gestures often speak to our psyche in ways no rational action could ever speak to our intellect.
The Netflix show about a Birmingham crime family and their personal demons concluded earlier this month.
Deaths of despair are skyrocketing in the U.S., while at the same time, they are falling in other wealthy countries. What are we doing wrong?
Pain makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. What's puzzling is why so many of us choose to seek out painful experiences.
John Templeton Foundation
Can we stop mass shootings? The first step is collecting data, and these authors have done just that.
Digital nomads can fully immerse themselves in their surroundings while advancing their career and stimulating the local economy. But there is one potential downside.
Types of therapy are about as different as the people who use it.
We know sleep is more important than aimlessly scrolling on social media or checking our email for the 50th time. So, why do we do it?
One theory for catatonia is that it is similar to an animal's “death feint.”
Your bites will heal, but will you ever sleep well again after an infestation of bloodsucking parasites?
Before the war, medical experts treated the body as a sum of its parts. Conditions like wound shock and brain damage called for a change in perspective.
Will nature or nurture win out?
One form of domestic abuse involves a parent breaking their child’s connection with the other parent.
Understanding these links could bring us closer to a cure.
Remote work is here to stay. Here are a few ways to enhance remote training in a post-pandemic future.
An experiment in rats suggests that gene editing may be a treatment for anxiety and alcoholism in adults who were exposed to binge-drinking in their adolescence.
Hoarders know their habits are abnormal, and yet they cannot help themselves. Maybe you can help them.
Data from NASA, ESA, and Roscosmos suggest that long durations in space cause changes in the brain, some of which are linked to vision problems.
To reap the benefits of digital technologies, we must contend with their addictive designs.
A large study links pornography use to decreased sexual performance for men and increased sexual performance for women.