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Wikimedia Commons Study: Using Rituals to Push Away Bad Luck Is Effective
Exerting force away from the self, such as knocking on wood, after tempting fate makes people feel better.
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Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters The Problem of Prolonging Life
As my mother and I wrestled with the idea of turning off my father's pacemaker, I learned about the moral, medical, and legal obstacles to letting someone die.
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roland/flickr Study: How Depression Dulls Memory
Symptoms of depression correlate with difficulty distinguishing between similar, but separate things.
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Nguyen Huy Kham / Reuters What We Eat Affects Everything
How men and women digest differently, diet changes our skin, and gluten remains mysterious: A forward-thinking gastroenterologist on eating one's way to "gutbliss"
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bottled_void/flickr Study: Stress Linked to Dementia
Women who reported more stressors experienced more distress over the course of their lives and higher rates of dementia.
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Some Americans Say They Support the Affordable Care Act but Not Obamacare
The idea that ignorance is the root of much disagreement—that if Americans understood the healthcare law, more would support it—seems condescending, but not invalid.
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Dr. Howser's Army: The 3-Year M.D.
U.S. medical education is based on a century-old structure. Leading physicians are calling to streamline medical school to three years. How long does it take to make a doctor?
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Walter White Is Not Dead
A definitive medical diagnosis
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jayhem/flickr The Science of Choice in Addiction
Research has shown that beating addiction is ultimately about regarding addicts as people who can rationally choose.
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John Gress/REUTERS All the Ways to Get Out of Obamacare
It turns out there is an enormous array of exemptions to the individual mandate.
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excitingsounds/flickr Study: Read Romance, Be Sensitive
Readers of fiction (romance more so than science fiction, suspense, or domestic) were better at picking up emotion in the eyes of others.
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Small Animals Explain Obamacare
Amid campaigns for and against the health law, evocative imagery has peaked.
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AP Suicide and the Economy
"We never spoke of them. Why would we?" Learning the the truth about my great-grandfather, and 40,000 Americans during the Great Depression
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Sonia Faruqi Agriculture Needs More Women
A psychological case for safer food and more humane farming
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wayne'seyeview/flickr A Modern Exorcism
As a young doctor, I helped perform a Santeria ritual for a patient in jail, rather than sending him to psychiatrists. I think I did the right thing.
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Wikimedia Commons Study: A Way to Get Over Fear, While Sleeping
Subjects who underwent exposure therapy while asleep showed reduced fear responses both while sleeping and after waking.
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Renaud Camus/flickr Living With Face Blindness
Prosopagnosia is a condition that can make it impossible to recognize the faces of others, from friends to movie characters to parents. To varying degrees, it affects about two percent of people.
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Kids Shouldn't Have Phones Because They Need to Learn Empathy and Experience Sadness
Higher highs and lower lows for a better life
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DBduo Photography/flickr Growing Up With an Autistic Brother in the 1990s
"I wish I was you. You're normal."
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David McNew/Reuters Electronic Dance Music’s Love Affair With Ecstasy: A History
The drug and the music evolved together over years, making EDM a radically different culture today than it was when it started.
