What is salient is not important. What is important is not salient. The media turns us away from the issues that will determine the course…
Brain
Skeptics view hypnosis as a little-understood parlor trick, but a new study reveals real changes occur in the brain when a person enters an hypnotic…
He comes to the operating room late, greets no one, and berates the nurse for not setting up the stepstools the way he likes. He…
We’ve all had those kinds of days where everything seems to go wrong. You’re running late, and hit every single stoplight from home to work.…
Scientists understand that stress in early childhood can create lifelong psychological troubles, but have only begun to explain how they emerge in the brain. For…
On today's Progressive Commentary Hour, Gary spoke about these articles and spoke with Dr.Jim Garrison, The collapse of the middle-class job Sadistic capitalism: Six urgent…
This guest post was written by Suzanne Houston, a doctoral candidate in developmental psychology at USC who uses neuroimaging techniques to study brain development in…
Acetaminophen is an effective painkiller, but it could also be blocking our brain’s ability to detect errors. “Past research tells us physical pain and social…
Today, one in eight American children is diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In 1987, when ADHD made its debut in the American PsychiatricAssociation’s diagnostic manual (DSM-III-R), the authors…
Listening to someone complain, even if it’s yourself, has never done anyone any good. Some people say that it may act as a catharsis, a…
A conversation with anthropologist and historian of science Nicolas Langlitz about mystic materialism, the revival of psychedelic research, and the return of perennialism in the…
A UT Dallas researcher says there's a smart way for children and parents to disagree—and it doesn't involve casting blame. Dr. Jackie Nelson, assistant professor…