Mental Health

The care of people with dementia poses an agonizing philosophical dilemma

The Nazi regime urged German mothers to ignore their toddlers’ emotional needs—the better to raise hardened soldiers and followers. Attachment researchers say that the harmful effects of that teaching may be affecting later generations

So-called "relaxation music" is only about as effective as a soothing Chopin piece at lulling listeners into a relaxed state. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen talks with psychologist Dr. Joseph Burgo about the often-misunderstood experience of shame

People who had a conflict in a given day but also got hugged were not as affected by the negative interaction as were their unhugged counterparts.  

The first order of business: break down research silos and move toward open science

AA is not the answer to alcohol addiction for many secular scientists, but there are great alternatives

Grunya Sukhareva characterized autism nearly two decades before Austrian doctors Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger

New recordings of electrical activity in the brain help reveal the underpinnings of bad moods

Mouse studies show tiny intercellular pods convey to sperm a legacy of a father’s hard knocks in life

Researchers are developing wristbands and apps to predict moods—but the technology has pitfalls as well as promise

Where financial disparities are greatest, the murder rate tends to be high