An emerging theory posits that environmental stresses -- like childhood abuse, neglect, and poverty -- are associated with mental and physical illness from anxiety to cardiovascular diseases in later life.
AP | CHRISTOPHER LEONARD | Posted 12.14.2009 | Business
ST. LOUIS — Confidential contracts detailing Monsanto Co.'s business practices reveal how the world's biggest seed developer is squeezing compet...
abcnews.com | Posted 11.30.2009 | Books
The latest installment of the "YOU" series of self-improvement books, "You: Having a Baby", is full of tips for a healthy pregnancy. The authors, Dr. ...
Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.13.2009 | Living
Unlike almost every other organ, the belief about the brain was that healing didn't exist, so that once wounded or impaired, the damage was permanent. Now we know that's not true.
Dan Agin | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
Some people argue that humans are merely crazy apes, but the counter-argument, that humans and apes are dramatically different, is not easily dismissed. So, how different are we from other animals?
BBC NEWS | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green
Each of us has at least 100 new mutations in our DNA, according to research published in the journal Current Biology....
Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living
In last week's blog, Susan Smalley, Ph.D., founder of the Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) at UCLA, shared with us her fascinating journey. Af...
wsj.com | Shirley S. Wang | Posted 08.13.2009 | Living
Allen Roses, director of Duke University's Deane Drug Discovery Institute, said that if other researchers get the same findings, it could mean a drast...
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 08.08.2009 | Living
Libraries are taking on a new mission to help promote cognitive health in their communities and using the concept of brain fitness.
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 07.11.2009 | Living
If you have the DRD2 gene, with the A1 allele variant, you are more likely to be obese and more likely to be addicted to alcohol and/or drugs. This is not your fault.
TIME | Kathleen Kingsbury | Posted 07.11.2009 | Living
How much power do genes hold over behavior? Can they predict, for example, whether a child will grow up to join a gang? Those are among the questions ...
Dr. Frank Lipman | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living
Healthy aging is mainly the result of how we "communicate" with our genes -- through our diet, our lifestyle and the environment we bathe them in.
news.yahoo.com | Alice Park | Posted 06.20.2009 | Living
Among the many mysteries that befuddle autism researchers: why the disorder affects boys four times more often than girls. But in new findings reporte...
Dan Agin | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
On opening our newspaper this morning (our "newspaper of record"), we find an Op-Ed essay arguing that human morality has been provided to us by Darwi...
Earl Pomerantz | Posted 03.21.2009 | Living
"Nurture" doesn't really exist. It's simply expressed "nature." Where's my evidence? I don't have any. I offer my opinion unencumbered by study or research. I have no patience for that stuff.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 07.27.2008 | Living
Human behavior isn't complex the way a game of chess is, or the way the wiring is in a computer, for example. Human traits cannot be ascribed to one gene or even a large group.
Dan Agin | Posted 07.26.2008 | Media
The dogma of American conservatism is to look backward, which means you're usually out of date in understanding progress and usually wrong in understanding the human condition.
abcnews.com | Will Dunham | Posted 06.24.2008 | Living
Comprehensive lifestyle changes including a better diet and more exercise can lead not only to a better physique, but also to swift and dramatic chang...
Dan Agin | Posted 01.04.2010 | Living