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Psych Symptoms Less Biology “Than a Kind of Language”

Posted on March 18, 2014 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

  Is mental illness a product of biology or culture? Ethan Watters, over at Pacific Standard, argues that whatever the biology involved in mental illness, ...

Brains and Behavior

Orchids & Dandelions Abloom (Repost)

Posted on June 8, 2013 by David Dobbs / 5 Comments

  Can Genes Send You High or Low? The Orchid Hypothesis A-bloom by David Dobbs Originally posted March 2012* A few years ago, Arial Knafo, a psychologist a...

Brains and Behavior/Culture/Culture of Science/Medicine

The PTSD Trap (NC Moving Party Track 4)

Posted on June 2, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Below find #4 in my Best of Neuron Culture Moving Party — a run of 10 of my favorite posts from the blog’s tenure at WIRED, posted as I moved the blog her...

Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science/History of science

Kill Whitey, It’s the Right Thing to Do (NC Moving Party Track 2)

Posted on May 31, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

This is #2 in my Best of Neuron Culture Moving Party — a run of 10 of my favorite posts from the blog’s tenure at WIRED, as I move the blog here. In this ...

Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science/History of science

The Depression Map: Genes, Culture, Environment, and a Side of Pathogens

Posted on May 30, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

This post, originally published  14 September, 2010, examines how genes and culture can apparently shape one another’s development and expression — a topi...

Brains and Behavior/Uncategorized

How A Four-Year-Old Kicked My Butt at Blickets

Posted on April 23, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

In the clip above, filmed in the lab of University of California, Berkeley, cognitive psychologist Alison Gopnik, a particularly charming 4-year-old girl named ...

Brains and Behavior/Uncategorized

Yes, You CAN Do Evo Psych Well. Kate Clancy Tells How.

Posted on February 11, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

There are so many ways to go wrong in evolutionary psychology. Kate Clancy does us the tremendous favor of specifying how to do evo psych right. Invaluable read...

Brains and Behavior/Uncategorized

I Grip the Gun and the Gun Grips Me

Posted on December 21, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

“Happiness is a warm gun.” – John Lennon “You are different with a gun in your hand; the gun is different with you holding it.” ...

Brains and Behavior/Uncategorized

Is Psychology Stuck In a Paradigm Shaft?

Posted on December 10, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

As the fallout over DSM-V continues, UK psychologist Graham Davey probes the question: Once scientists establish a paradigm in a particular area this has the ef...

Brains and Behavior/Medicine/Uncategorized

Psychiatry Throws a Tantrum

Posted on December 7, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Over at Slate I have a story, “The New Temper Tantrum Disorder,” about the “Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder” I wrote about more b...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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