Stories by Jamie Talan

Visions for Psychedelics

Stopping HIV Dementia

The Jilted Brain

Quick, How Many?

Lying Liars

Bigger Is Brainier?

Science Probes Spirituality

What happens in the brain to create a sense of peace during meditation? And could drugs tap those mechanisms without us focusing inward for hours?

Bonding Hormone

Depression Hastens Heart Disease

Schizophrenia Drugs Questioned

Young and Evolving Brain

Half Are Mentally III

Panicky Hot Spots

Upsetting Psychotherapy

Pressure from insurance companies and competition from drug therapies are prompting analysts to get patients off the couch more quickly

Alzheimer's Jam

The Ethics of Scan and Tell

You volunteer as a normal subject for a study involving brain scans. Then researchers spot something abnormal in your head. Should they tell you?

Cooling Hot Aggression

Primates Protest: Unfair!

Distance Therapy

Alzheimer's Vaccine?