When you’re perusing your Facebook account, your brain might be fooling you into thinking you’re doing something incredibly creative and productive that will improve your life. If only that were true! More »
Part of why Special K — the drug, not the cereal — became popular with some US clubbers is because of its ability to instantly improve the user’s mood. Now doctors in Texas are studying if that effect can help treat cases of severe depression. More »
If you are depressed, or schizophrenic or have Alzheimer’s, scientists say you probably have a shrunken hippocampus. The good news: a drug that just entered human trials promises to re-grow that part of the brain. More »
The results of a five-year study of adolescents in The Netherlands shows that young people with a certain gene variant are more vulnerable to depression when they smoke pot. More »
The trapped Chilean miners may face their most severe psychological challenges in a couple of months’ time, if experience from space missions is anything to go by. More »
A new study found a direct link between the time teenagers spent staring at screens and their inability to have meaningful relationships with their parents and peers. This study obviously was conducted before that Russian kid blessed us with ChatRoulette. More »
I’m not surprised that in the middle of a deep recession, while people have basically stopped buying appliances, standalone freezers have an exceptional growth of 13 percent. One of my grandmas, who lives alone, has the most massive freezer I have ever seen in a home. It is bursting with food that will likely never be eaten, unless a zombie apocalypse strikes and the whole family boards itself up in her house, where we would have six months before we’d have to start eating each other.
