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...

Joshua Waitzkin, the subject of the book and movie Searching for Bobby Fischer,[1],[2] describes in his own book, The Art of Learning: An...

We can create good self-esteem through identifying personal values we choose from society, then ensuring that our behavior supports...

Self-esteem can be built by behavior consistent with personal values. Previous posts[1] have shown that this process works essentially...

(The Survival Pledge is an eight-point plan to refocus each of us on taking responsibility for our own thoughts and behaviors in ways...

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...

Question: How many experiments did James Watson and Francis Crick perform to determine the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)?...

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