Authors

Erik Strand

Think Positive
How positive thinking affects your health. People with high activity in a particular brain area may muster weak immune responses in the face of negative emotions.
Anger and Snap Judgments
Angry people are more likely to make negative assumptions, especially when it's on the fly.
Orthorexia: Too Healthy?
Specialists have coined a new term—orthorexia—to describe an obsessive concern with healthy eating that often leads to social isolation.
Info Overload
Seeing less than meets the eye. Within a visual scene, most people can reliably recall only four items once the scene is gone from view.
Daddy Told You Not To Cry
Many fathers are reluctant to acknowledge the realities of the psychological health of their children.
Smart Foods, Not Supplements
Eating nutritious whole foods promotes brain power that you won't find in nutritional supplements.
Does EMDR Work?
Treating trauma with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy.
Autism's So-Called Epidemic
The rise in incidence of autism cases could be due to better diagnostic skills, and not necessarily an increase in the disorder.
A Bright New World
A group called the Brights wants to refurbish the image of people who don't believe in God.
Help Wanted: Child Psychiatrists
For children, psychiatric help can be hard to find due to lack of professionals and low pay.
Does Swearing Corrode Society?
Do young minds and civil society really crumble from four-letter words? Or does cursing play an important role in our language?
Out of Sync?
Autism may be caused by shoddy wiring in the brain. Although the parts of an autistic brain may function well, poor connections make it difficult for the brain to function as a whole.
Cell Yell
Hearing only one side of a conversation is what really drives us to distraction. Our brains, expecting information to arrive from both sides of a conversation, have an innate tendency to fill in the blanks.
Logic: Devoid of Reason
In his new book Crimes Against Logic, author Jamie Whyte examines the faulty reasoning widely used by politicians and pundits. Here, he discusses logic and its pitfalls.
Your Pain, My Brain
Feeling another person's pain. Why we react to the suffering of others.
Women Prone to Anxiety After Heart Attack
Gender impacts how a person recovers from the life-threatening event.
Flavonoids: Antioxidants Help the Mind
Naturally occurring plant pigments, flavonoids are one of the reasons fruits and vegetables are so good for you. Among the many benefits attributed to flavonoids are reduced risk of cancer, heart disease, asthma, and stroke.
Philanthropy: What Gives?
Altruism isn't the only reason we donate. Experts say that our own sense of self-worth plays into whether or not we give -- or don't give -- our hard-earned dollars to charity.
Moderation for Long-Term Exercise
You don't have to push yourself to the limit to get fit. Why moderationis the name of the game.
The Illusion of College Drinking
Giving students a valid picture of how much their peers actually drink could reduce campus drinking.

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