Self—the “I” we experience as our identities; in our bodies; with our histories and future possibilities; our personalities, our...

Back in March I discussed bipolar disorder’s very complex biology, which includes abnormalities in glial-neuronal interactions, immune...

Bipolar disorder continues to present many problems for psychiatrists, starting with the diagnosis itself. Since Kraepelin first...

For centuries, insanity and creativity have been linked in the popular imagination. In the modern era, biographical studies of...

Psychiatric patients usually meet diagnostic criteria for more than one disorder. Such “comorbidity” always raises questions of what...

When I looked at the genetics of placebo effects last June I was struck by the apparent overlap between the genes associated with...

Mark Tonelli, a pulmonologist at the University of Washington who is also trained in philosophy, has written a series of papers which put...

For some time now I’ve been puzzled about the cerebellum. This pair of mini-hemispheres at the underside of the back of the brain...

In the last several years, a new level of analysis has shed light on how the brain functions, as well as on what may be going wrong in...

Mark Solms, a neuropsychologist in Cape Town, South Africa, has for the last two decades been at the center the movement to enrich both...