Docs Pushing More Hard Drugs on Kids
At Time, Maia Szalavitz tells of some really, really bad medicine: The new study, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, found that in 2005-09 nearly ...
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Can Genes Send You High or Low? The Orchid Hypothesis A-Bloom
Author’s: This post is an expansion of a feature I published a few weeks ago in New Scientist. It draws from research for a book I’m now writing, Th...
Dissing the Disabled Without Data: A Biologist Mom Punches Back
This guest post is by biologist and writer Emily Willingham, who first published it yesterday at The Biology Files. I asked her if I could post it here because ...
Is Sensitivity a Curse or a Blessing? My Latest on The Orchid-Dandelion Hypothesis
As faithful readers know, I’m working on a book, provisionally titled The Orchid and the Dandelion and likely to be published next year, about the orchid-...
Enough With the ‘Slut Gene’ Already: Behaviors Ain’t Traits
Earlier this week, WBUR’s Here and Now ran a taped interview with me about “Beautiful Brains,” my recent National Geographic article on teen b...