Extra Links for Lectures

“The processes involved in standardized testing failed me.”

Has the term become so expansive as to be meaningless?

The advisory group said the new guidance can help identify these conditions early so people can be connected to care.

A specific kind of trauma results when a person’s core principles are violated during wartime or a pandemic

To help someone in psychosis, one psychologist says, it’s best to first just be there and listen.

Physicians suffer one of the highest burnout rates among professionals. Dr. Kimberly Becher, one of two family practitioners in Clay County, West Virginia, learned the hard way.

Researchers found that meaty conversations among several people can align beliefs and brain patterns — so long as the group is free of blowhards.

Asserting an essential freedom

The world we live in ties our self-worth with our output, which means that the only way for many people to deal with their high-functioning anxiety is by working even more.

The civil rights organization cites detainees chained to chairs for days in filthy conditions with no access to toilets, among other abuses.

“Matthew effect” is powerful, unusually large study finds

“Getting hit with a baseball bat once is better than getting hit five times,” one expert said.

A new study found uninsured survivors of sexual violence were charged an average of $3,673 for visiting the emergency room.

Inside Igor Koralnik’s efforts to solve the mystery of COVID’s most puzzling complication.

Brain fog isn’t like a hangover, depression, or ADHD. It’s a disorder of executive function that makes basic cognitive tasks absurdly hard.

When a child is scared of the dark or being left alone, it can be hard for adults to know the difference between an age-appropriate fear and full-blown anxiety. This episode is full of tools to help parents better understand and manage their child's "worry brain."

Society’s understanding of mental health issues locates the problem inside the person - and ignores the politics of their distress, says psychologist Sanah Ahsan

Born without my left temporal lobe, a brain region thought to be critical for language, I’ve been a research subject for much of my life.

Helping each other is inherently human. Yet new research shows that sleep deprivation may dampen people’s desire to donate money.

The idea that women arrive at motherhood prepared for the job has done damage for centuries. Can new science help us to let it go?

Dreams are subjective, but there are ways to peer into the minds of people while they are dreaming. Steven Strogatz speaks with sleep researcher Antonio Zadra about how new experimental methods have changed our understanding of dreams.

Some researchers have cast doubt on the record of the celebrated supercentenarian.

These Black-led groups have popped up across the country as more and more Black people have reported prolonged Covid symptoms — and difficulty getting treatment.

By sharing my story, I hope to dispel stigma and internalized shame, and help anyone struggling know they are not alone.

Sometimes when Charlie Chasen or Michael Malone would be out and about on their own in Atlanta, people would mistake one for the other.

A Silicon Valley startup offers voice-altering tech to call center workers around the world. Is it fighting bias – or perpetuating it?

Nature - Bystander-intervention programmes use humour and other tools to call out bullying and harassment in science.

The analysis found that people were at increased risk for dementia, epilepsy, psychosis and brain fog for about two years after contracting covid.

New laws make it harder for teachers to discuss racism and inequality, but psychological evidence shows these conversations dispel causes of bias and distress