I define psychiatric “overdiagnosis” as the observation that there has been a rapid rise in the rate of mental health diagnoses in recent decades, combined with the suspicion that a substantial propor...

Building physical stamina isn't just about training your muscles. A new study reveals that specific cells in the brain coordinate the body's metabolic adaptations to exercise, playing a central role in boosting athletic endurance over time.

Specific bacteria in the human gut and mouth, along with digestive byproducts, are associated with psychopathic personality traits. The findings suggest the microbiome might influence how humans process emotions and regulate impulsive behavior.

Gilles Deleuze reframes the category of the Baroque, moving it further away from an art-historical trope and closer to a philosophical concept, drawing on the philosophy of Gottfried Leibniz.

As a neurosurgeon and a son, I’ve come to see the parallel processes underlying growing tumours and stressed-out minds

Some actions and words provoke instant revulsion. To know if we can trust that gut feeling, we should probe why we have it

Kurt Vonnegut employed absurdism in his works of science fiction to critique modern life in a way that traditional literary realism was unable to do.

Marie Antoinette was released into a cultural moment dominated by consumerism as empowerment, when ‘girl power’ was used to sell music and fashion to young women.

Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time.

Maggie Miller explains why our intuition about three dimensions breaks down in four, and how she visualizes 4D spaces as a reel of three-dimensional snapshots.

Cruise’s presence is the most interesting thing about a film that is otherwise much too full of itself.

The neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene wants to bring four decades of findings on how the brain learns into the classroom. But evidence alone can’t overcome the politics in education

A world of violence sustains itself through guns, poverty and other social ills, but also through the minds it creates

The ancient Greeks had a profound impact on Western thought. On a fundamental level, ancient Greek has shaped the way we understand the world.

Growing numbers of women are using testosterone for menopause symptoms, but female-specific products remain scarce and evidence patchy.

Our study shows that brain remains malleable and can learn new things well into older age.

Can AI-human connections ever meet the psychological criteria of attachment – the relationships that hold people’s lives together?

‘Brahmacharya’ is a monastic discipline centered on controlling the senses and directing attention toward spiritual practice.

First episode in a five-part series. Liberal democratic theory has traditionally held that it's up to individual citizens to decide for themselves what constitutes the good life, and that the state sh...

These ancient Greek poems about love and war feel surprisingly modern in sentiment. From Sappho to Archilochus, this is the raw side of classical literature.

Called a “monstrosity” and accused of being “ruled by his wives and freedmen,” attitudes toward disability likely impacted assessments of Claudius’ reign.

A new psychology study reveals that minor musical keys evoke the sublime, major keys predict beauty, and visual elements heavily dominate our overall aesthetic responses when we experience audio and visual media simultaneously.

A single 20-minute session of alpha-frequency brain stimulation modestly reduced anxiety after a stressful task in healthy middle-aged and older adults.

Experts highlight biomarker-driven schizophrenia care—computational subtypes, muscarinic drugs, sharper negative-symptom scoring, and KCC2 targets—reducing trial-and-error prescribing.

If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more

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some reflections on loss of self control, vice, and brutality

There is nothing ‘behind’ the fantasy

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