
Love Lessens Pain
Contemplating a new love can reduce pain by activating the same brain region that processes addictions and analgesic drugs. Cynthia Graber reports

Love Lessens Pain
Contemplating a new love can reduce pain by activating the same brain region that processes addictions and analgesic drugs. Cynthia Graber reports

Pigeons Gamble on Unlikely Jackpot over Small Sure Things
Pigeons chose a big payoff option that only hit 20 percent of the time over a small payoff that had better returns in the long run. Karen Hopkin reports


A Healthy Lifestyle Reduces Breast Cancer Risk for Women Either with or without a Genetic Predisposition
Women who followed weight, exercise and alcohol consumption guidelines had about the same lowered risk for getting breast cancer, even if they had a strong family history of the disease

Virtual Revulsion Therapy: Pixelated Pests Help Treat Cockroach Phobia
Psychologists have started testing augmented reality as an enhanced form of virtual reality therapy for specific phobias

Key ingredient staves off marijuana memory loss
Cannabis composition determines effects on the brain.

Permeable Boundaries: How Mothers' Meds Affect a Fetus
A new book explores the many ways in which common chemicals--and other outside influences--encountered in the womb can impact lifelong development

Elderly Should Avoid Walking under the Influence
Subjects with an average age of 62 had trouble avoiding an obstacle placed on a treadmill after consuming even small amounts of alcohol. Cynthia Graber reports

Doubts about psychedelics from Albert Hofmann, LSD's discoverer

Psilocybin found to ease end-of-life anxiety in small study of patients with fatal cancer

It's Very Tough to Tell Just How Drunk Someone Is
A recent review of studies on intoxication has determined that we are very bad at determining just how drunk someone is. Christie Nicholson reports

How Smokers Think about Death
Do graphic warning labels on cigarette packages really deter people from lighting up?

Ecstasy Triumphs over Agony: MDMA Helps with Recovery from Trauma
An illicit drug shows promise as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder