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Study: Oxytocin ('The Hormone of Love') Also Makes Us Conformists
You think your tastes are your own, but it may actually be that a hormone is making members of a group share the same preferences.
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Jade and Bertrand Maitre / Getty Not Wanting Kids Is Entirely Normal
Why the ingrained expectation that women should desire to become parents is unhealthy
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Elitist Beryllium, Know-It-All Carbon, and Other Personified Ways to Learn the Periodic Table
The elements that make up our bodies and the world around us imagined as superheroes.
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It's Not Just About Showing Your Genitals: Time to Talk About Sexting
Around one in four teenagers has sent venereal texts or emails, and those who have are about seven times more likely to have old-fashioned, body-on-body sex. Often it's "risky sex," and not in the good way.
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Study: A Setback for the 'Obesity Vaccine'
Knocking out a stomach hormone curbs food intake, but it also leads to a more anxiety-ridden response to stress.
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yoppy / Flickr When You Can’t Sleep, How Good Is Lying in Bed With Your Eyes Closed?
The key differences between sleep and “quiet wakefulness”
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The Restorative Power of Good Old TV
The "social surrogates" we know and love can play real roles in reconstituting willpower and reducing anxiety.
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The 'What the Hell Effect': How We Cheat and Still Look in the Mirror
And "how do we get people to feel clean again?"
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How Children Learn: A World Tour of Class Portraits
A lens on the environments in which we educate the generations around the globe.
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When I Was 26, I Had a Stroke: The Escape
You know what it feels like when you can't identify a snail?
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How Medical News Becomes Ridiculous
Over-hyping scientific findings often begins in research article abstracts, even before press releases and media outlets get their hands on them.
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How to Raise a Child: 10 Rules from Susan Sontag
Be consistent. Always speak well of his pop. Do not discourage childish fantasies.
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The Twitter Acid Experience
One million people in the United States use LSD each year. Far fewer live-tweet it.
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Historical Geniuses and Their Psychiatric Conditions
Michelangelo would be on the autism spectrum, and other compelling cases for retroactive diagnoses in 11 of history's great minds
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Reimagining Psychiatry in Rural India
By bridging physical and cultural divides to meet the needs of drastically underserved populations in India, advocates may end up creating a model for the rest of the world to follow.
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Biological Implausibility Aside, Acupuncture Works
A large meta-analysis has shown that acupuncture's benefits can't be fully attributed to placebo effect, raising the question throughout Western medicine: Why?
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Could You Love Someone Without a Face? Making Facial Transplants Common Practice
With just 25 cases on the books worldwide, leading surgeons push to bring the procedure mainstream as a medical necessity.
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Should I Be Listening to Music While I Work?
Dr. Hamblin's Emporium of Medicinal Wonderments: In an ongoing series, the curious men and women of The Atlantic bombard me with their physiological curiosities.
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Why We All Have 'Internet-Addiction Genes'
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iPods as the Next-Generation Autism Aid
How apps designed to make all of our lives easier can be co-opted to help adults with autism thrive in the workplace
