Grand Rounds

Why we do the things we do.

by Steven Schlozman, M.D.

Happy Birthday, Pete Townshend - How The Who Defined Generations

Pete Townshend will be 68! Wish him a merry birthday this month. Read More

Zombies on the Great Frontier

The perceived freedom of the Great Frontier—be careful what you wish for... Read More

Talking to Your Kids About The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games has some heavy issues. Talk to your kids about them. They might understand more than you expect. Read More

Have We Forgotten How To Wonder?

Have we forgotten the pristine joy of just wondering? How we can jump-start the next generation of American innovation. Read More

A Nation Wrestles With Another School Shooting

A high school student opened fire in the school cafeteria in Ohio. Some have died and others are wounded. As every news outlet in the country and across the world quickly reported, this is not the first school shooting in the United States, and the story line is familiar enough that it felt like we were reading the same reports we've read before. Read More

Fear Insults Hope in the Political Arena

Is it possible to avoid fear mongering in our political discourse? Read More

Madmen, the Carousel, and the Pang of Nostalgia in the Walking Dead

Madmen and The Walking Dead share the pang of nostalgic reckoning. Read More

The Woman in Black—Ghosts, Uncertainty, and Things That Go Bump in the Night

Why ghost stories scare us most of all. Read More

I Love You Man: Men and Friendship

So many stories about so many guys who're celebrating the simple act of being friends... Read More

Consumerism Consumes Us All

Can we ever have enough? Read More

Watching TV with Your Kids Over the Holidays? Try Firefly.

Watching Firefly with my Daughter is a gift this season. Read More

Human Development at the Holiday Vespers

There is nothing moderate about middle school... Read More

The Moral Molasses of The Walking Dead

The Moral Molasses of the Walking Dead Read More

The Rise and Fall and (Maybe) Rise Again of Glee

Is Glee getting good again? Read More

Giving Thanks

A chance encounter with a desperate ghost at five o'clock in the morning... Read More

The Shared Experience of a Good Scare; Revisiting Stephen King's Salem's Lot

I just watched this scene for the first time in almost 30 years and it still scared the hell out of me. Why in the world did I have so much fun? Read More

The Walking Dead: A Great Show, But Why?

Why Do We Love The Walking Dead? Read More

Does the Internet Know Me Better Than I Do? What If It's Wrong and I Don't Even Know It?

Is there a difference between HAL and Google? Read More

Best TV Shrink Ever: Here's to Dr. Sidney Freedman!

Who was the best psychiatrist on television? Ask the 4077th. Read More

Kids and Swearing: What Would Atticus Say?

How to talk to kids about swearing. Ask Mr. Finch. Read More

Group Love at Comic-Con

Dungeons and Dragons has come a long way... Read More

The Stanford Prison Experiment: Is There A Bit of Voldemort in All of Us?

What does the Stanford Prison Experiment uncomfortably tell us about our comfortable selves? Read More

Did Ernest Hemingway Dabble in a Zombie Tale?

Did the Nobel Laureate really pen a zombie novel? Read More

Saturday Morning Cartoons Meant My Parent's Door Was Shut (I think)

Saturday morning gave me my TV and gave my parents some privacy. You can't get that kind of happiness with Hulu. Read More

Horror Films You Can Watch With Your Kids

Are there horror films that are appropriate for kids to watch? You betcha, but you need to choose carefully. Read More

Parents and Their Kids' Technology: Don't Cede Information to Wisdom

If we can use this technology to foster inquiry, and also step away from it and think together, then we're back on solid parenting ground. Read More

Tornadoes of My Youth

We listened and we wondered what it would be like to have the roof go flying like a kite off the top of our school. Read More

Did the CDC REALLY issue a Zombie Readiness Plan?

This is your brain on AMC's "The Walking Dead" Apparently, the CDC was watching too... Read More

Out of the the Mouths of Babes

What a difference.

Digesting the events of the last couple of weeks have brought to light, both in my clinical practice and in my parenting, the kinds of revelations that it seems younger people (read: kids) are especially adept at illuminating. Read More