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How Does LSD Induce Short-Term Psychosis but Long-Term Optimism?

Rachel Jonas 08/09/2016

A 2016 study from Imperial College London showed that...

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The Man Who Attempted to Use Pleasure Conditioning to Turn a Gay Man Straight

Robert Colvile 06/07/2016

Robert Heath claimed to have cured homosexuality by implanting...

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New Research is Connecting Genetic Variations to Schizophrenia and Other Mental Illnesses

Rachel Jonas 07/05/2016

Researchers are trying to fill in the blanks between...

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Big Data for Complex Disorders: A Case in Point for Schizophrenia

Binay Panda 07/02/2016

The scientists concluded that patients with schizophrenia were more...

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Maneka Gandhi (and Others too) Should Mind their Language on Mental Illness

Maitreyi Misra 29/01/2016

Labels have created a subtle but pervasive habit of...

John Forbes Nash, Jr. Credit: Princeton University

Remembering John Nash, Mathematician Who Unlocked Game Theory For Economics

Vasudevan Mukunth 25/05/2015

The Nobel Prize and Abel prize winning John Nash...