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To Feel Meaningful Is To Feel Immortal
Still Life with Skull by Philippe de Champagne (1602-1674). (Wikimedia Commons) Imagine when our ancestors first started to look up at the stars and question their place in the universe. Why are we...
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Why We Need to Abandon the Disease-Model of Mental Health Care
The original English version of the DSM-5 as well as the French version of the DSM-IV-TR. (Credit: F.RdeC via Wikimedia Commons) The idea that our more distressing emotions such as grief and anger can...
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Concussion Culture: How to Protect Young Athletes
An imminent tackle in high school football. (Credit: Ian Kahn via Flickr) In May of 2012, former NFL linebacker Junior Seau took his own life by shooting himself in the chest. Seau was dealing with...
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How Our Brains Process Books
Reading. (Credit: Paul Bence/Flickr) We all know how it feels to get lost in a great book. Sometimes the characters and emotions can seem every bit as real as those of our everyday lives. But what’s...
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Calling It Sex When They Mean Love
The saying “Why do they call it love when they mean sex?” is often used when a person feels a strong physical attraction toward another person and they camouflage it as love or a special connection....
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Using Light to Monitor and Activate Specific Brain Cells
Artist's rendering of a spatial light modulator firing precise beams of laser light at neurons targeted by researchers, triggering those neurons to fire. (Lloyd Russell/Hausser Lab) The past several...
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Terms of Endearment: Why Do We Use Pet Names in Relationships?
I have been called a little owl, a swan and even a “panda-fish.” No, I’m not a supernatural, shape-shifting creature or a character in a children’s storybook. I’ve just been in a few relationships...
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The Growing Economic Burden of Depression in the U.S.
Credit: Luis Sarabia/Flickr Depression in America costs society $210 billion per year, according to the newest data available, yet only 40 percent of this sum is associated with depression itself. My...
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How to Help the Growing Female Prison Population
The maximum security Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama, where numerous employees have been accused of abusing inmates. (Rivers A. Langley/Wikimedia) Orange Is the New Black, the...
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“Optocapacitance” Shines New Light on the Brain
Gold nanoparticles of different sizes, and hence different colours. (Allen Bellew/Flickr) A novel twist on the young field of optogenetics may provide a new way to study living human brains as well as...
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