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Study: Sleep-Deprived Men More Likely to Assume That Women Want Them
College men are somewhat more reasonable when they've slept.
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Sex After Dementia
Desire for physical intimacy doesn't disappear when Alzheimer's sets in. Supporting that aspect of a patient's wellbeing raises a host of ethical questions.
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Study: Looking at Own Facebook Profile Bad for Brain
After spending five minutes looking at their own profiles, students did significantly worse on a simple math test.
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Distinguishing Brain From Mind
In coming years, neuroscience will answer questions we don't even yet know to ask. Sometimes, though, focus on the brain is misleading.
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Bringing Beverly Hills Cosmetic Surgery to the Middle East
What a group of California plastic surgeons learned from practicing in Dubai
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deep_schismatic / flickr How Happiness Changes With Age
Becoming okay with being boring
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Ask Alison: When to Get a Number, Replacing Dogs, and Long-Distance Confrontation
Good advice from someone who is terrible at dating
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Race Is Not Biology
How unthinking racial essentialism finds its way into scientific research
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For Kids, Plastic Surgery Not Always the Answer
The many considerations in "repairing" the face of a child
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Disconcerting Robot Detects Depression
Augmenting psychiatric diagnosis with data
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Study: Kids Are Prejudiced Against Fat People by Age 4
British elementary school students believed an overweight storybook character was more likely to be naughty and less likely to have friends.
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Study: Men's Biceps Predict Their Political Ideologies
Positions on economic redistribution correlated with upper-body strength.
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Study: Happiness Comes Easier With Upbeat Music
Resarch subjects were better able to will themselves into positive moods while listening to rousing symphonies.
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The Michael J. Fox Show, Life With Parkinson's
Write a show about a family man with an incurable neurodegenerative condition, and make it funny and not manipulative. Okay, go.
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How to Walk Away
The psychology of lost causes
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Lost in Medication
Psychiatrists who take time with their patients are not the norm. It's not because others don't care. Rather the system rewards efficiency, not empathy.
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Study: Math Skills at Age 7 Predict How Much Money You'll Make
Kids who were better at reading and math at age seven ended up in a higher socioeconomic class age 42, regardless of what other advantages they had.
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How to Not Hate Dating
Take it easy, be happy alone.
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The Consolation of a Psych Diagnosis
How labels obscure humanity in mental illness
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Tone Deafness: A Broken Brain?
Researchers have spent the last decade trying to understand why some people are unable to appreciate music.
