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A single dose of psilocybin produced measurable changes in brain activity and possible changes in brain structure that lasted for up to a month. Participants who experienced the greatest increase in flexible, varied…
We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.This week, from 2021: How the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker became one of the…
From the perspective of tourist-host interaction, the study explores the dual impact of the relationship between interaction intensity and interaction type (social-oriented interaction, service-oriented interaction) on…
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. Dorothy Parker once observed, "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." When was the last time you needed to be cured of boredom? Today…
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. Here is a story of something awful that happened last semester. I think we can all learn from it. I know that I did. As Founding Director of the Evolutionary…
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. In his book The Gay Science, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche presents the notion of eternal recurrence: If you were to live your life over and over for…
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. Traditional martial arts training is often cited as a mindful mind-body practice that can improve and maintain health. I often write about applications and…
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. In 2009, an art installation called Waste Not traveled from Beijing to New York, London, Vancouver, and Sydney. It consisted of ordinary household objects, bottle…
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley In the United States, 90 percent of kids have a smartphone by the age of 13. Perhaps even more remarkable, 42 percent of them have one by the age of 10. If you don’t like…
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Devon Frye Living an empowered life doesn't mean feeling confident or in control all the time. Instead, it's about agency: knowing you have a voice, choices, and the ability to trust…
Updated July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley Angelina Jolie has talked publicly about her family history of cancer, including preparing her children for the probability of her relatively young death, which has…
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley In an unguarded moment during my senior year of high school, a kid from the yearbook staff approached me for a quote to appear beneath my photo. Today, thumbing through…
Updated July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley Years ago, I made a snap read of a young patient’s parent. Something in the first five minutes said arrogant—the too-smooth handshake, some ancient pattern of mine…
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley The self-development world has spent 25 years tiptoeing around a really important scientific finding: A substantial portion of how happy you are is the luck of the…
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan Artificial intelligence has much to tell us about deception based on recent experiments carried out by scientists at the artificial intelligence company Anthropic. The…
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch Everyone says you find love when you stop looking. I don't know if that's true. But whenever I realize someone is in search mode, looking for "the one," I immediately lose…
Sometimes, the things that make us, and those around us, feel good can be working against us at the same time.
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan The Greek poet Virgil said, "Fortune favors the bold." I first discovered this truism as an older teenager, and it has served me well through the years. As a high school…
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley This month, as the United States celebrated its 250th anniversary, the immortal phrase âwe the peopleâ appeared on parade banners, in commemorative essays, in…
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan As a therapist, I hear a lot about regret. “If I had only…”. “I should have known…” “How could I have…” It has always struck me as a unique emotional state — a mix of…
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk One of the most common emotions divorced parents experience, especially the spouse who was the lower- or non-earning spouse during the marriage, is tension around money…
Alzheimer's drugs can now clear amyloid build-up from the brain. But does that translate into real-world improvement?
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk The human body presents us with a psychological contradiction. It’s the source of movement, identity, pleasure, intimacy, and life itself... and yet it also ages, sweats…
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Devon Frye "Events of mutual aggression are unavoidable in the course of a life lived together, but, by the same token, the possibility of their clarification and resolution carries…
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk Death has a very powerful way of putting living in perspective. My neighbor died last Thursday evening. Only 30 minutes earlier, he had been blowing leaves in his garden…
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan Human intelligence and artificial intelligence don't differ simply in how they think. They differ in what happens after a thought is made. For years, I've called these two…
Updated July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan When Kay Russell woke from a short nap one evening, she no longer sounded like herself. The 49-year-old from Gloucestershire had gone to sleep with her usual English…
Updated July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan If reality is a simulation, isn't the idea that reality is a simulation itself a simulation? Then reality must be real — correct? If only it were that simple. Every age…
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan Attraction in a relationship is a measure of intensity. That is, how strongly two people are drawn to each other, how quickly the connection forms and how much energy the…
Posted July 21, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk Gaslighting, whereby someone undermines our belief in our own experiences, is now a familiar term, while other hurdles to personal knowledge have been overlooked. One of…
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