Psyche
Viewpoint: Why RFK, Jr.’s promotion of ‘natural medicines and food’ is simplistic, often ignorant, and sometimes dangerous
Often, we’re given a choice between certain things – such as foods, medicines or procedures – that are deemed natural, ...
Liminal space: The brief moments between wake to sleep where your brain exists in the ‘twilight zone’
Each night as you lay down to sleep, you embark on an extraordinary journey – not through space, but through ...
Network of symptoms: A new way to think about mental disorders — and why some treatment strategies are doomed to fail
A novel perspective on psychopathology [is called the] network perspective, pioneered by the Dutch psychometrician Denny Borsboom and his colleagues ...
Robosexuals: How close are we to the inevitable era of artificial intelligence-driven sex robots?
Robosexuals eagerly await the promised arrival of sophisticated sex robots: talking, walking dolls that can carry a conversation, discern what ...
Brain health: How to slow down the mind’s natural aging process
I have worked in the area of brain health for almost 20 years in my role as a psychiatrist, and ...
Beyond dopamine: The science behind how and why the brain works to make us happy
[Dopamine is] one of the many, many chemicals (aka neurotransmitters) found in the human brain, where it has many functions ...
IVF 14-day rule: Scientists and ethicists reconsidering how many days an embryo can be studied outside the womb
As early as 1979, regulators responded to [in-vitro fertilization ethical] concerns by establishing the ‘14-day rule’. It soon became an internationally accepted ...
Saints and psychopaths, light and dark: Which personality type is more likely to succeed?
There is an oft-touted saying that ‘Nice guys finish last’ and, on the face of it, this might seem correct ...