Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Michele Siegel, Ph.D., et al.
When an eating disorder exists, it is recognized by certain behaviors, the most noticeable being an obsession with food and weight. This obsession can take the form of binge eating, starving, vomiting, compulsive exercising, or other behaviors focused on eating, getting rid of, or avoiding food.
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- Written by: Eric Maze, University of Missouri
We believe differences in metabolic requirements for male and female embryos as early as the first trimester, combined with dynamic differences in the way the male and female placenta reacts to environmental factors...
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- Written by: Thomas Hatsis
Beginning in the late 1950s, five hospitals (in the province of Saskatchewan in Canada) offered a new kind of psychedelic therapy: treating alcoholism with LSD.
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- Written by: Thomas Hatsis
Beginning in the late 1950s, five hospitals (in the province of Saskatchewan in Canada) offered a new kind of psychedelic therapy: treating alcoholism with LSD.
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- Written by: Rachel Harrison-NYU
Tooth loss is a risk factor for cognitive impairment and dementia—and with each tooth lost, the risk of cognitive decline grows, according to a new analysis.
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- Written by: Faith Elicia
Saying no to ED should be a no-brainer — maybe to somebody not suffering from an eating disorder. My recovery journey has demonstrated that it’s a daily struggle, something I must fight one day at a time. It’s easy to forget that ED will bring me to my death if I don’t remain conscious of its presence.
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- Written by: Faith Elicia
Saying no to ED should be a no-brainer — maybe to somebody not suffering from an eating disorder. My recovery journey has demonstrated that it’s a daily struggle, something I must fight one day at a time. It’s easy to forget that ED will bring me to my death if I don’t remain conscious of its presence.
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- Written by: Nicholas R. Longrich, Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology and Paleontology, University of Bath
Humans constantly alter the world. We fire fields, turn forests into farms, and breed plants and animals. But humans don’t just reshape our external world – we engineer our internal worlds, and reshape our minds.
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- Written by: Daniel Stolte, University of Arizona
A coronavirus epidemic broke out in the East Asia region more than 20,000 years ago, researchers report.
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- Written by: Gabriel Neal, Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine
As a primary care physician who often treats patients with heat-related illnesses, I know all too well how heat waves create spikes in hospitalizations and deaths related to “severe nonexertional hyperthermia,” or what most people call “heat stroke.”
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- Written by: Janelle Weaver, Stanford University
A diet rich in fermented foods boosts the diversity of gut microbes and decreases molecular signs of inflammation, according to new research.
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- Written by: Alison Jones-Duke
When it comes to picking a snack, taste has a hidden advantage over healthfulness in the brain’s decision-making processes, a new study shows.
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- Written by: Beata Mostafavi, University of Michigan
The number of adolescents admitted to the hospital for severe illness from eating disorders increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, new research suggests.
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- Written by: Ida Eriksen, University of Copenhagen
Depending on their discipline, some Olympic athletes could potentially enjoy some junk food without affecting their performance, an expert explains.
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- Written by: Michael Keller, ETH Zurich
Researchers have found an unexpectedly high number of potentially concerning chemicals intentionally used in everyday plastic products.
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- Written by: Stanford University
While the hazardous air quality is certainly cause for alarm, there are precautionary measures people can take to protect their health during wildfire season. Here, experts talk about four key problems associated with wildfire smoke, and offer some practical tips about how to stay safe.
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- Written by: Carol Clark, Emory University
A new study uses genome-wide association studies for a range of different traits and disorders correlated with nicotine dependence and explains 3.6% of the variation in nicotine dependence.
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- Written by: Tjitze de Jong
The emotional charge of fear is a huge one. It is the emotion I come across more than any other in my work with cancer clients.
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- Written by: Tjitze de Jong
The emotional charge of fear is a huge one. It is the emotion I come across more than any other in my work with cancer clients.
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- Written by: Amy McCaig-Rice University
Postpartum women in bad romantic relationships are not only more likely to suffer symptoms of depression, but are also at greater long-term risk of illness or death, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Katie Bohn-Penn State
It can be difficult to get young kids to eat enough vegetables, but a new study finds that simply adding more veggies to their plates can result in children consuming more vegetables at the meal.
