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Study: Meditation Improves Memory, Attention
Students who did about an hour of "mindfulness training" for eight days subsequently did better on the GRE as well as tests of working memory and mind-wandering.
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How to Raise a Kid: Thomas Jefferson vs. Abigail Adams Edition
Thomas Jefferson pushed his daughter to succeed, while Abigail Adams cautioned her son against failure. What's a better incentive?
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Study: Antibiotics May Prevent Men From Overtrusting Attractive Women
Japanese researchers believe they've found an antidote for men's susceptibility to femme fatales.
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Study: How Yoga Alters Genes
Alternative therapies meant to help us "break the train of everyday thinking" have effects on a cellular level.
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The Real Problems With Psychiatry
A psychotherapist contends that the DSM, psychiatry's "bible" that defines all mental illness, is not scientific but a product of unscrupulous politics and bureaucracy.
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Cannibalism in Jamestown: Colonists Ate a 14-Year-Old Girl's Brain
Archaeologists announced today the "first solid evidence" that some 17th-century American colonists consumed one another.
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Career Advice: Give
Givers focus on others, takers on themselves, and matchers care most about fairness. Studies show that most professional success, not just satisfaction, goes to givers.
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Study: People Who Believe in God Are More Responsive to Treatment of Depression
It may be that "the tendency to have faith in conventional social constructs" can be generalized both to religion and the medical establishment.
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Finding Humanity in My Tourette Syndrome
We still don't know what causes the bizarre affliction, or how many people have it. Characterized by uncontrollable behaviors and widespread misconception, as little as 20 years ago many didn't even know it existed.
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Study: Doctors Are Bad at Empathizing With Overweight Patients
Audio recordings made in exam rooms indicate that doctors "operate at an emotional distance" from overweight and obese patients.
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The Most Stressful Places to Live
41 percent of U.S. adults "feel stressed a lot of the day." Stats in some states are much worse than others.
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How Deadly Is a Spoonful of Cinnamon?
Major medical journal takes on the eat-cinnamon-feel-terrible meme very late in the game; awareness and mystique of proscribed act heightened
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Study: People Empathize With Robots
Participants in a German study did not react well to videos depicting robot torture.
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Study: Green Space Means More for Satisfaction Than a Neighborhood's Average Income
How strongly people's mental health and life satisfaction correlated with their proximities to parks and gardens
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What's Tylenol Doing to Our Minds?
The same pathways that help with physical pain seem to moderate existential distress.
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In Boston, Psychological First Aid
A disaster-response behavioral health specialist discusses priorities.
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lookseebynaomifenton/Flickr Relationships Are More Important Than Ambition
There's more to life than leaving home.
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A Case for Singing to Your Child
A clinical trial of a music therapy program showed how lullabies, sung by parents, help premature infants.
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Are TV Doctors Doing Good?
It is valuable that basic health issues get exposure, though it seems the formula for a massive audience necessarily involves some degree of sensationalizing and emotional pandering.
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Study: Listening to Certain Sounds Seems to Improve Sleep
Participants played "pink noise" that was synchronized to their brain rhythms slept more deeply and had increased memory retention.
