Mental Gymnastics

A new study shows that children and adolescents may be able to switch attention from one thing to another--say studying to texting--with mor...

A new study in JAMA indicates that medical students posting photos of unprofessional conduct or inappropriate language is fairly common. O...

Psychiatrist George Vaillant has spent his career chronicaling the lives of a group of Harvard men. By doing so, he has sought to identify ...

As William James put it, “My experience is what I agree to attend to.” In other words, you make many choices during the day and these choice...

See this op-ed by David Grande in The Philadelphia Inquirer for an insightful look at the influence of the insurance industry on health ca...

According to Common Sense Media, checking time is the number one use of the cell phone. Texting is number 2. Kids sends hundreds of text m...

Here is an article in the NYT discussing how doctors taking Medicare are dropping like flies.