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Health & Disease

Studying poverty through a child’s eyes

Research on early-life adversity should pay more attention to the perspective of children themselves

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The Mind

Quiet couples: Alone time together

The right kind of silence can be golden, revitalizing and strengthening a relationship

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The Mind

Why speech is a human innovation

Many animals have the equipment for spoken language, but only people have all the right neural connections

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Health & Disease

Severe irritability in children and teens: A new understanding

Kids with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder have explosive outbursts well past toddler age. Scientists are trying to work out the causes and what treatments help.

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Health & Disease

Top 10 secrets about stress and health

The strain of life — from everyday conflicts to major losses — can stretch our well-being to the breaking point. Here’s what scientists know, and still don’t know, about the stress-illness connection.

A woman holds a conductor's baton in front of red neon sculptures of various musical instruments. Human response to music has deep evolutionary roots and seems hard-wired in the brain, says cognitive psychologist Daniel Levitin in this Q&A.
The Mind

The music moves us — but how?

The author of This Is Your Brain on Music talks about the very human ways the mind and body keep the beat.

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Living World

When the brain’s waste disposal system fails

Marco Sardiello explains how problems with the cell’s lysosomes lead to disease

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Health & Disease

Finland’s bold push to change the heart health of a nation

Beginning in its bleak borderlands, the country launched an official — and broadly influential — effort to improve food and lifestyle choices, using everything from cozy fireside chats and reality TV shows to laws and incentives.

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Society

How to deal with work stress — and actually recover from burnout

Mindfulness, detachment, selecting off-time activities with care: Here are evidence-based strategies to achieve healthy work-life balance

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The Mind

Peering into the meditating mind

Some people swear by it, but studies of mindfulness have a long way to go

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Society

Is it time to bring data to managing?

Trendy office layouts. Performance reviews that crush morale. There’s plenty of evidence on how to get the best out of workers, but businesses often ignore it.

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Society

Immigration isn’t linked to higher crime rates — but not everyone can believe it

Criminologist Charis Kubrin has spent more than a decade researching the effects of immigration on law and order. She’s finding that it takes more than data to make her case.

Illustration shows a woman surrounded by a complex set of gears showing food items, representing the complex relationship she has with eating and food. Most treatments for eating disorders focus on combatting the thoughts and behaviors associated with unhealthy consumption patterns.
The Mind

Searching for a better treatment for eating disorders

Cognitive behavioral therapy is proving to work well, but only for some patients. Scientists are seeking new innovations to help people grappling with the pervasive and often-hidden problems of anorexia, bulimia and binge eating.

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The Mind

Do yourself a favor

Thinking of others enhances your well-being, while selfishness just adds to stress, studies show

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The Mind

The mature mind: Aging resiliently

VIDEO: Connect with brain health experts about the best ways to cultivate resilience as we age, and how to support loved ones with memory loss and dementia

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Society

Nudging grows up (and now has a government job)

Ten years after an influential book proposed ways to work with — not against — the irrationalities of human decision-making, practitioners have refined and broadened this gentle tool of persuasion

A little girl looks off in the distance, distracted.
The Mind

Women and girls with ADHD

VIDEO: The disorder can present differently in girls and boys, and holds different challenges for women who live with it

Illustration shows two pill bottles, one labeled “placebo.” Both bottles are filled with different-colored pills; the ones in the “placebo” bottle are shaped like little bowties.
The Mind

How the placebo effect went mainstream

PODCAST: Sloppy by today’s standards, and maybe even back when it was published in 1955, Henry Beecher’s paper paved the way for sounder drug trials and pushed scientists to better understand how we process pain (Season 3, Episode 3)

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Technology

E-books for kids raise questions about consequences

Evolution of children’s literature into high-tech form may offer benefits, but also some detriments

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The Mind

Better therapy for Asian Americans

Most of today’s psychotherapies are grounded in Western values. Researchers hope that tailoring treatments to patients’ cultural backgrounds will improve mental health outcomes.

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