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LoloStock/Shutterstock When Anxiety Hits at School
As the number of teens who suffer from anxiety disorders continues to grow, mental-health care is increasingly part of school nurses' job descriptions.
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Reuters The Enforcers of the Death Penalty
How does capital punishment affect the prison guards and wardens tasked with carrying it out?
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Tyrone Siu/Reuters Sense of Humor Changes With Age
A new study explains why your grandma doesn't find The Office funny.
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Burger King Japan Food Color Trumps Flavor
Why have Burger King's black burgers prompted such a backlash in the U.S.? Possibly because hue is even more important than taste in people's judgment of food.
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jcjgphotography/Shutterstock People Can Tell When They’re Losing Their Memories
A new study suggests that self-reported changes in the ability to remember things strongly predict future dementia.
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Charles Dharapak / AP What the Marshmallow Test Really Teaches About Self-Control
One of the most influential modern psychologists, Walter Mischel, addresses misconceptions about his study, and discusses how both adults and kids can master willpower.
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Liz Mc/Flickr When Yogurt Affects the Brain
Gut bacteria play a role in mood and emotion. Are probiotics the key to a better antidepressant?
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ftzdomino/Flickr Mime as Art Therapy
The silent form of performance can have surprising emotional, social, and cognitive benefits.
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Blue Square Thing/Flickr The Science of the Midnight Snack
Why the body craves junk food late at night
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Alexandre Normand/Flickr How Environment Can Boost Creativity
Dim lighting and ambient noise may lead to more out-of-the-box ideas.
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Marcos Brindicci/Reuters Lonely People Are More Likely to See Doll Faces as Human
A small new study posits that the threshold for recognizing something as "alive" lowers when someone is isolated.
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Daniela Vladimirova/Flickr Agoraphobia and the Telecommuter
How working from home enabled one woman's mental illness to flourish
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wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock Suicide and the Young Physician
The medical community can help the young doctor to continue saving lives, instead of taking his own.
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Seattle Municipal Archives/Flickr 'Apparently Useless': The Accidental Discovery of LSD
After the drug was dismissed by the pharmaceutical company that developed it, a researcher started experimenting on himself with it. Powerful hallucinations ensued.
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United States Marine Corps Archives/Flickr The Forgotten Female Shell-Shock Victims of World War I
Studies about the mental-health impact of the war have focused almost exclusively on men, to the detriment of the women who suffered on the front lines and the home front.
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Nick Perla/Flickr Why Do People Believe in Ghosts?
Across the world, ideas of the paranormal persist.
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Nomadic Lass/Flickr Training the Brain to Love Broccoli
A new study finds that behavioral intervention could help vegetables light up the neurological reward system the way a cookie does.
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Frank Perry/AFP/Getty Wine and Exercise: A Promising Combination
Red and white wines showed equal health benefits in new research—among people who move.
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Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty The Food Gap Is Widening
Wealthy people are eating better than ever, while the poor are eating worse.
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Graeme Maclean/Flickr The Origins of the Anger Face
Why humans have evolved to flare their nostrils, furrow their brows, and frown
