Extra Links for Lectures

Kizzmekia Corbett helped lead a team of scientists contributing to one of the most stunning achievements in the history of immunizations: a highly effective, easily manufactured vaccine against Covid-19.

Misrepresenting your symptoms or how cautious you’re being can have dire consequences.

I look at one of the most remarkable articles in the history of psychology

Crime, “unruly passenger” incidents, and other types of strange behavior have all soared recently. Why?

Police reforms, like implicit bias training or procedural justice, show some promise, but evidence suggests their impact is limited.

A Ohio couple has been unmasked as leaders of the neo-Nazi “Dissident Homeschool” Telegram channel that distributes lesson plans to 2,400 members.

One bride talks about how the desire to lose weight quickly spiraled out of control.

Directory of psychologists, therapists, and other mental health providers who respect and validate the anxiety and stress you're facing as the COVID-19 pandemic carries on. Living through this already has enough of an impact on our mental health – you shouldn't have to worry that your counselor will

On social media, therapists are turning consultation room conversations into memes. It’s a sinister trend.

The widely used eGFR test overestimates kidney function in Black patients, leaving some off the transplant list. A new policy tries to correct that.

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How a woman whose muscles disappeared discovered she shared a disease with a muscle-bound Olympic medalist.

The singer reveals her experience with psychosis and details her diagnosis in her new documentary, My Mind and Me.

More and more young people struggle with mental health. Do universities want to hear about it?

Tracing the fallacy of 911 call analysis through the justice system, from Quantico to the courtroom.

New York City’s plan to expand involuntary hospitalization is the opposite of ‘compassionate care’

Dozens of doctors said the nonprofit hospital pressured them to give preferential treatment to donors, trustees and their families.

Many women say doctors have dismissed their pain, and several studies confirm that gender bias routinely leads to denials of pain relief for female patients.

New research suggests improving college mental health may be helped by reshaping modern childhood.

Heavy advertising and other strategies from Silicon Valley’s playbook boost providers’ growth but not the quality of care.

An Illinois school for students with disabilities has routinely used the police to handle discipline, resulting in the highest arrest rate of any district in the country. In one recent year, half of Garrison School students were arrested.

Wickliffe Draper spent his inheritance helping to skew the science of human difference. That mission continues among beneficiaries of his largesse.

Earth’s largest animals are singing in ever-lower tones, and nobody knows why.

This is what the future of mental health could look like.

After her baby died in the night, a young mother called 911. Police thought they could read her mind just by listening. Now she’s haunted by the words she chose.

Christopher Massimine, whose compulsive lying derailed a promising career in theater, maintains that it’s a mental illness that has dogged him since childhood.

Mayor Eric Adams directed city agencies, including the Police Department, to take people who appear mentally ill and seem likely to harm others to hospitals for psychiatric care.

The two countries are outliers in routinely rejecting potential migrants on the basis of medical needs, leaving families with one ill member to struggle in a legal limbo.

It began as a visionary notion—that patients could die with dignity at home. Now it’s a twenty-two-billion-dollar industry plagued by exploitation.