mental health

Anxiety provoked by an unavoidable threat — like an electric shock in a lab — increases as the expected event draws closer.

When you combine feelings of resentment with the societal praise of leaving one’s mark, it forms a lethal cocktail.

Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, called for a mass psychedelic act of civil disobedience in protest of drug criminalization.

How do we combat the roots of these hateful forces?

Cat owners are no more likely to be crazy than you.

Yet another study shows the potential efficacy of psychedelics in treating addiction.

The organization argues that there is no evidence for this claim.

This modern therapy technique has been shown to be effective and easy to learn — could teaching it to students help cut off a growing mental health crisis?

How different types of green space affect mental health.

Part Two of an interview with Dr. John Ratey.

Autism is a widely misunderstood condition surrounded by falsehoods, half-truths, and cultural assumptions.

A new essay by Rafael Euba questions the goals of the happiness industry.

Most diseases don’t differ depending on where you’re from. Schizophrenia, however, is heavily dependent on your culture.

The Harvard Medical School’s clinical professor of psychiatry wrote the book on the topic.

Try not to think about your hands. Now enjoy a few minutes of not being able to stop thinking about them.

Brain plasticity. Mindful superpowers. Pokémon invading our grey matter. Scientists have only begun to learn about the human brain.

It isn’t surprising, but what’s behind the straight-white-male hegemony?

The “dangerous people” framework is a myth.

Smoking may put more than just your physical health at risk.

We’re going to have to reckon with our workweek sooner than later.

If loneliness is a “disease,” is this one of the complications?

When thinking about your shortcomings, it pays to be kind.

Michael Pollan explains what goes on during the mental fireworks of a psychedelic experience.

A new study posits that sleep deprivation decreases civic participation.

Does wishing someone well actually affect their health?

A recent study used data from the Big Five personality to estimate psychopathy prevalence in the 48 contiguous states and Washington, D.C.

Even more intriguing is the reason: recognizing facial expressions.

Spending between 120–300 minutes per week in nature shown to increase wellbeing.

Creating more neural circuits through visual landmarking not only benefits your spatial orientation, it could keep Alzheimer’s disease at bay.

Why did government officials stop psychedelics from reaching mainstream culture?