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For many years, I had a dark and dingy office with a soot-smeared window in a sterile hospital building. It was minimalist, to say...

Few relish the thought of getting older. What is there to look forward to? Everything we hear about it is accompanied by the word...

Thanks to a growing body of research, scientists are gaining a better understanding of the link between smell, emotion and wellbeing. Faces appear more...

“People don’t change.” I remember hearing this from one of my professors in medical school. His comment went hand in hand with everything I...

As we head into summer, and we are inundated by marketing messages heralding the start of beach season, I’m simultaneously struck by how many...

We humans are really good at dwelling on stuff that make us feel bad. This negativity bias was helpful to our ancestors when survival...