Childhood trauma can accelerate aging
Childhood adversity, such as neglect or abuse, can have long-lasting consequences that follow some people...
COVID-19 pandemic made U.S. college students’ mental health worse
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has caused the mental health of U.S. college students to plummet,...
Could the “overview effect” calm political polarization?
In a special edition of the science journal Futures, Sanjoy Som considers the future evolution...
How PTSD messes with your brain’s memory centers
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized, in part, by unwanted recollections and vivid emotional responses....
Cortisol, not testosterone, can help you get a date
Have you ever wondered what is happening in your body when you are attracted to...
‘Deaths of despair’ are rising. It’s time to define despair
As 2015 wound down, a foreboding but catchy phrase from a scientific paper blew across...