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How to Restore Your Feminine Balance

By Mary E. Pritchard, Ph.D. on May 14, 2013 in Diet is a 4-Letter Word

The notion that food can be poison just as it can be medicine is not a new one, but the connection between food and hormones is. Want to know how to balance your hormones using food? Find out here! Read More

Angelina Jolie, Real Fear, and Cancer Phobia

By David Ropeik on May 14, 2013 in How Risky Is It, Really?

Cancer is ranked as the most feared disease in America. Sometimes our fear of this dreadful family of diseases can do us more harm than the disease itself, an issue raised in today's OpEd by Angelina Jolie revealing that she has had a prophylactic double mastectomy for fear of breast cancer because she carries a genetic mutation raising her risk. Read More

The Critical Thing Your Doctor Needs to Know

By Lissa Rankin, M.D. on May 14, 2013 in Owning Pink

In my patient intake form, I started asking my patients questions most doctors don’t ask. Read More

How to Eat Well and Influence People

By Sheila Himmel on May 13, 2013 in You Must Be Hungry

Food celebrity Mark Bittman lost weight and wrote a book about dieting for health. But his message speaks directly to people struggling with eating disorders: Make rules but don't be rigid; enjoy your food. Read More

Some Considerations in Treating Health Anxiety

By Fredric Neuman, M.D. on May 13, 2013 in Fighting Fear

Different kinds of psychotherapy end up doing the same thing: correcting misconceptions about oneself and about the world. Confronting fears is critical to the treatment of health anxiety, which is disturbing not only to the health worrier, but often to all the members of his or her family. Read More

Learning to be Resilient

By Romeo Vitelli, Ph.D. on May 13, 2013 in Media Spotlight

Though most people are going to encounter a major traumatic experience at least once in their lives and we are all bombarded by daily “hassles” on a regular basis, how we respond to stress can vary widely. Even in extremely negative situations, there are still going to be children who somehow manage to survive and thrive. Read More

Would the Founding Fathers Approve of a Sugar Tax?

By Peter A. Ubel on May 13, 2013 in Scientocracy

Based on the history of alcohol prohibition, taxing sugar is a much better way to combat obesity than banning sugary beverages. Read More

Altering the Sugar but Not the Sweet

By Dina Rose, Ph.D. on May 13, 2013 in The Art & Science of Teaching Kids to Eat Right

Less sugar in yogurt won't improve kids' eating habits if the yogurt still tastes extremely sweet. What's next? Magically altering apples so they taste like Coke? Read More

Blue Is the Color of My Genes

By Talya Miron-Shatz, Ph.D. on May 13, 2013 in Baffled by Numbers

If my love of the color blue is predetermined by my genes, do I have a say in the matter? An answer was found at the TEDxKingsCollegeLondon under the theme "Beyond the genes: Identity, health, culture." Read More

My Q&A with FLOTUS Pioneer: Mental Health 2013

By Melody T. McCloud, M.D. on May 13, 2013 in Black Women's Health and Happiness

First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden are working to increase awareness of many issues concerning our military, national gun violence, mental health issues such as PTSD and high rates of suicide. Here, former FLOTUS Rosalynn Carter discusses her pioneering role in mental health. Read More

Adolescent and Parent Conflicts Over Later and Later

By Carl E. Pickhardt, Ph.D. on May 13, 2013 in Surviving (Your Child's) Adolescence

Differences over what happens now and what happens later, about how late to stay up and to stay out and to sleep in, can all cause conflicts between parent and teenager. Then, when no longer living at home, the more independent older adolescent usually encounters these conflicts with him or herself. Read More

Are toxic chemicals making you fat?

By Edward Abramson, Ph.D. on May 12, 2013 in It's Not Just Baby Fat!

We can see the external cues in our environment prompting us to eat more than we need. What's less obvious is the non-natural chemicals in the environment that may make it easier to gain weight and harder to lose it. Read More

This Is Your Brain On Restless Leg Syndrome

By Dr. Mark Borigini, M.D. on May 12, 2013 in Overcoming Pain

Neurologists have long wondered why so-called “dopaminergic” (dopamine being a brain neurotransmitter) treatments help restless leg syndrome (RLS), but not the sleep loss associated with that disorder; even as, at least from the patient’s perspective, this lack of sleep may just be no big deal. Read More

How Uncertainty Overpowers Evidence in Matters of Health

By David DiSalvo on May 12, 2013 in Neuronarrative

Few of us are comfortable with uncertainty in any form, least of all when the status of our health is branded with the scarlet question mark. A new study in the journal JAMA suggests that fear of uncertainty is fueling a psychological dynamic that's leading to more and more invasive procedures--whether or not we need them. Read More

Ten Reasons I Love DSM

By Stuart L. Kaplan, M.D. on May 12, 2013 in Your Child Does Not Have Bipolar Disorder

Although vilified, there is much to love about DSM Read More

Are You Caught in a Speed Trap?

By Diane Dreher, Ph.D. on May 11, 2013 in Your Personal Renaissance

Our fast-paced lives may be our nation's greatest health risk. Read More

Love Your Mother? Give Her a 'Mommagram'

By Pamela Cytrynbaum on May 11, 2013 in Because I'm the Mom

There's a reason they tell you to put the oxygen mask on yourself first when you're on an airplane with a child. You can't help the kid if you're passed out. Ladies, let's be honest. Who among us would really do that? We are hard-wired to take care of others first, then with the scraps and dregs of our energy and time, we scrape together our own self-care. Read More

Dog Smarts

By Katherine Bouton on May 10, 2013 in What I Hear

Dog Smarts? It's knowing where your next meal comes from. Maxwell says, "I'll tell you what I think about this book after you take me for a walk and give me some treats and then a big breakfast with some scrambled egg on top. And a nap." Read More

What Is the Secret to a Happy and Meaningful Life?

By Amie M. Gordon, M.A. on May 10, 2013 in Between You and Me

Recently I’ve been contemplating giving up on the modern world and moving to a cabin in the woods. Maybe I'd find more meaning and happiness living the simple life. But research says I should think twice before giving it all up, because how I feel inside may be a bigger determinant of my happiness than any external factor such as the view from my window. Here's why... Read More

DSM-5: “A Living Document” Dead on Arrival?

By Robin S. Rosenberg, Ph.D. on May 10, 2013 in The Superheroes

Why is DSM-5 being considered a "living document?" The main rationale, to my mind, is to “correct” for the shoddy work that is being launched this month. Read More

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