Mental Wellness

Have you ever wished you could regenerate those brain cells you sacrificed in college? Do you fear that your aging brain is in a perpetual state of decline? Medical science ...

St. John's wort begins to bloom around St. John the Baptist's birthday, June 24—hence its name—and continues until August. There ...

The term "superbug" conjures images of bacteria with superpowers—able to evade the effects of the antibiotics given to ...

For most of his life, Isaiah Heller has oscillated between panic and prescriptions, alcohol, and marijuana to numb ...

According to the World Health Organization, around 50 million people worldwide suffer from dementia, with Alzheimer’s predominantly being ...

Caring for someone with a serious illness stretches people spiritually and emotionally, often beyond what they might have ...

It won't be a surprise to most of us that up to 50 percent of marriages in the United ...

Since the discovery of DNA, the central dogma of genetic translation has lured us in with a simple ...

Autism diagnoses in a large sample from the UK rose by a startling 787 percent from 1998 to 2018, ...

Underlying much of what we do is a sense of anxiety, uncertainty, fear, doubt, or dissatisfaction. And we ...

A couple of years ago I was in Los Angeles and I had just finished a project that ...

Would you like to get a better night’s sleep? Has your child been diagnosed with attention deficit hypersensitivity disorder ...

What are you hoping for in months ahead? Do you want to progress in your career or perhaps ...

People with attachment anxiety may yearn to be closer to their partners but never seem to get close ...

I live with a hip-wiggler. When we’re in an elevator, Fred shakes to the muzak. If we’re pushing ...

Paraphrasing the English journalist and philosopher G. K. Chesterton, New Testament scholar N.T. Wright wrote: "The purpose of ...

Although we experience feelings constantly, most people have a sketchy understanding of this subject at best. This is ...

I would like to tell you an all-too-familiar story. It begins with a long-term care home resident, Laura, ...

Ageism can harm older people’s health, a review of research in 45 countries across five continents shows. The ...

We naturally want to feel good. But what happens when our favorite method of stress relief becomes destructive? ...

On the afternoon of Jan. 26, I was at the Indiana men’s basketball game when a chorus of ...

For many people, depression is a lifelong battle. If you have one episode of depression, there is a 30 ...

I’m in my 50s—a bit past midlife, but not exactly into old age. My kids have grown, I ...

When I was accepted to speak in the red circle for my first TEDx talk back in 2016, ...

Keeping your mind engaged is often suggested as a way to stave off dementia, and something as simple ...

Contraceptive pills and shots, prescribed with casual frequency, have known side effects that are little-discussed. Research has uncovered ...

Kids have to learn reciprocity—the “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” response—but not revenge, research finds. “In ...