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The idea of drugs tunneling their way through the brain, worms to the mind’s apple, is a frequent metaphor I hear. I wrote on the topic for Discovery’s Curiosity and resurfaced it to prepare material for drug education talks with high schoolers.

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have reconstructed the internal “movie” that plays in a person’s head. [More]

I always knew we humans have a rather tenuous grip on the concept of time, but I never realized quite how tenuous it was until a couple of weeks ago, when I attended a conference on the nature of time organized by the Foundational Questions Institute.

I saw this paper going around the internet early last week, and I was immediately very interested. [More]

Ok, not ALL in your head. [More]

Let me start by saying that I'm admittedly an economics fan. [More]

At their extremes, both autism and schizophrenia are debilitating disorders. [More]

I recently moved to a big city from a series of smaller, suburban cities and towns. [More]

Money can bring you happiness, studies show, but not as much as you might think.

If you like to surf porn on the Internet, you've got company. [More]

When my first child was born, I was very happy, as many moms are, but also a little on edge. [More]

Is it really as simple at that? I got a tweet from a reader yesterday pointing me to an article in the LA Times. [More]

[PART 2 OF 2 BLOGS ON SCHIZOPHRENIA. [More]

Most people have heard of ketamine.

September 10, 2005. [More]