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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

Nathan Connolly and his wife, Shani Mott, say an appraisal company undervalued their home based on their race. The couple has filed a lawsuit in Maryland.

At the end of her life, Eva Perón was suffering from painful cancer and displaying erratic behavior, and her lobotomy may have been a way to treat both problems.

These evidence-based strategies can help you achieve healthy work-life balance

Social media is both making DID better known, and creating room for more misunderstanding.

Creator response to viral TikTok account the Wonderland System shows spotlight on complications of documenting mental health online.

Humor can lighten the mood. But it can also provoke, cajole, and inspire. This hour, TED speakers share how we can wield humor as a tool across all aspects of our lives.

Chelsea Becker, prosecuted for murder after her stillbirth, spent 16 months in jail: ‘Why did the hospital call police?’

A conversation with Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry about their new book, The Flag and the Cross.

The long read: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell

“It's been like hell on earth realizing, ‘Woah, people really hate people like me.’”

Deep Squeak is the name of an artificial intelligence program that was designed to detect the high-frequency "squeaks" mice and rats make when they are stressed. But a new application of the technology is putting a much bigger emphasis on the "deep": It's being used to search for whales and other marine mammals in a ocean environments.

The pioneers of social genetics were racists and eugenicists: should we give up on the science they founded altogether?