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Mental Health
People engage in creative thinking every day, whether they realize it or not.
Harvard psychiatrist Robert Waldinger discusses how 80 years of ongoing research show relationships to be vital for health and happiness.
You don’t have to “feel the burn” to see improvements to your health and well-being.
When you can't enter flow, you can still lean on your internal rhythm.
"Jumping genes" exist in various forms, including as remnants of ancient retroviruses, and make up about 45% of the human genome.
When boredom creeps in, many of us turn to social media. But that may be preventing us from reaching a transformative level of boredom.
The majority of children who stutter will spontaneously recover from it without intervention, but some 20% of people do not.
They could also "turn off" their fear.
These were the stories you clicked on the most.
Fathers’ brains adjust their structure and function to parenthood.
Eyes with lower pigment (blue or grey eyes) don’t need to absorb as much light as brown or dark eyes before this information reaches the retinal cells. This might provide light-eyed people with some resilience to SAD.
In an animal study, it blocked the drug from crossing into the brain.
Terrified of blushing? You might have erythrophobia.
Psychologists are finding that moral code violations can leave an enduring mark — and may require new types of therapy.
The larger truth on the streets is that no one uses just one drug anymore.
"Downward counterfactual thinking" — that is, imagining how things could be worse — is a quick and easy way to boost your well-being and gratitude.
Metabolism and mitochondrial functioning seem to have far more to do with mental health than many people might expect.
Mindfulness, detachment, selecting off-time activities with care: Here are evidence-based strategies to achieve healthy work-life balance.
Brown noise, the better-known white noise, and even pink noise are all sonic hues.
When your passion becomes your day job, sometimes the day job becomes a chore.
A new study concludes that eating more carbohydrates reduces a person's risk of major depressive disorder.
A long-maligned treatment outperforms the trendy one.
A technique called targeted memory reactivation could improve common treatments for nightmare disorder.
Antidepressants can help alleviate PTSD symptoms when paired with psychotherapy, but does our overenthusiasm for them blind us to more effective alternatives?
When other treatments fail, this radical surgery could help.
How many tins of beans make a stockpile, and when does a basement become a bunker?
Does donating relieve that anxiety? Or make it worse?
The same brain differences that contribute to left-handedness also contribute to psychotic disorders. But there's a bright side.