The term “nervous breakdown” is no longer used—“mental-health crisis” is the nomenclature du jour—but I think I had one two years ago. My journey into the psychological night was precipitated by a ...

For filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, the journey into In Waves and War began with a story that seemed almost impossible to capture. When highly decorated Navy SEAL Marcus Capone returned from ...

If you've ever felt stuck in old pain, these trauma-healing methods could finally move you forward. Trauma doesn't just leave scars on the heart; it leaves what some experts call a "brain wound." When ...

Summer is a time of the year when people usually spend a lot of time outside and many of us, author included, like to be in nature. Some research suggests that humans innately tend to seek connections ...

MD Anderson Cancer Center explores music's potential to heal the body using advanced brain mapping.

When I was 16, my grandmother’s physique puzzled me. Her shape suggested obesity, but her limbs and face contradicted my observation. I asked my father, a gastroenterologist and professor of medicine ...

On neuroscience’s big stage Nov. 15, MIT Professor Earl K. Miller will propose that thought and consciousness emerge from the fast and flexible organization of the cortex produced by the analog ...