Mental Health

Why do teenagers seem so much more impulsive, so much less self-aware than grown-ups? Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore compares the prefrontal cortex in adolescents to that of [...]

Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health [...]

Neuroscientist Neil Burgess studies the neural mechanisms that map the space around us, and how they link to memory and imagination. Read the full article

Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. In this entertaining, data-rich talk he gives us a glimpse into [...]

In this video, the brilliant Eckhart Tolle uses humor to help us absolutely magnify the present moment.

Discarded by a system that didn’t know how to help her, Eleanor Longden tells the moving tale of her years-long journey back to mental health. .

With dazzling energy and humor, RubyWax, diagnosed a decade ago with clinical depression, urges us to put an end to the stigma of mental illness.

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This is a very interesting article. Did you know that management actions that increase workplace-induced stress are, collectively, the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S?           Click [...]

When someone breaks their arm, we rush to sign their cast. When someone is diagnosed with mental illness, we run the other way. In this video, Andrew Steward bravely pulls mental illness out from [...]