Are people with mental illnesses more violent than those without them? Many state legislatures have recently acted on the idea that they...

This new series will discuss some public ideas about mental health and mental illness that may not be firmly grounded in fact or...

We have been discussing in this series the link between values and self-esteem: how defining the former can inform conscious choices...

Many people spend much of their lives developing and maintaining healthy interpersonal boundaries. In the age of social media, however,...

In this series we have reviewed some (mostly) famous examples of research in medical science that illustrate paths to future success:...

We have been exploring the important differences between retrospective and prospective studies, clarifying that the latter offer the...

It is apocryphal that the psychiatric uses of lithium were discovered due to high levels of the element in the drinking water of cities...

It seems hardly arguable that one of the greatest public health triumphs of the twentieth century was the linkage of cigarette smoking...

“If you want something done right, do it yourself.”[1] Most current research is published with multiple authors, a mean of 11-18 in three...

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." Isaac Newton, 1675 Modern society owes much to the Enlightenment...