Neuroscience
The Role of Neuroscience in Psychiatry Redux
My response to a critique of a recent post
Stories by Daniel Barron
Neuroscience
Why Psychiatry Needs Neuroscience
An influential subset of psychiatrists argue—absurdly—that neuroscience has little clinical relevance
Mental Health
Case Study: When Chronic Pain Leads to a Dangerous Addiction
How did an educated, elderly engineer wind up with a heroin habit?
Mental Health
The Rise of Evidence-Based Psychiatry
We need to approach the brain as a computational organ, one to be evaluated with measurements and calculations
Behavior & Society
Should We Let Doctors-in-Training Be More Sleep-Deprived?
A proposed new rule says yes, even though many new physicians already have depression and thoughts of suicide
Cognition
How Studying Neuroscience Transformed My Brain
Eighteen-year-old me would have—without a doubt—endorsed Donald Trump’s rhetoric
Mental Health
Do You Suffer from Trump Syndrome?
If you're displaying erratic behavior that seems irrational to others, part of the explanation could be plain old sleep deprivation
Neuroscience
How a Curious Condition Solved a Neuroscientific Mystery
A stroke patient, neuroimaging—and Colombian guerrillas—helped settle a decades-long debate on how the brain understands words
Mental Health
Psychiatry When You Don't Speak the Language
An afternoon in a Chinese clinic makes it clear how important a patient's speech can be to making a diagnosis
Neuroscience
How the Brain Processes Images
A visit to China reminds a neuroscientist that no matter how differently different cultures see the world, they process images in the same way
Behavior & Society
Brains on Trial
A close brush with jury duty leads a neuroscientist to ponder what happens when the legal concept of guilt runs up against scientific notions of responsibility and free will...
Mind
Getting Past the "Shotgun" Approach to Treating Mental Illness
We treat depression by trying different drugs until we find one that works—a highly imprecise approach to treating the most sophisticated of organs, the brain
