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I am in Rehoboth in a cheap motel room, a nubby yellow bedspread rough beneath my fingers, a loose, faux-wood headboard hard against my back. […]

The New York Times recently fanned the flames of the controversy over whether many cases of ADD, and even ADHD, are actually cases of sleep […]

This past week, before yesterday’s shameless display of ideological stonewalling cast a cloud of senselessness over the U.S. Senate, the New York Times ran an […]

If you’re wondering how long we’ll live with stories of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffering from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, you might want to […]

Now that alleged cop-killer Chris Dorner’s week-long rampage has come to an end, and we can all breathe a sigh of relief, maybe, finally, we […]

I’m trying to wrap my mind around what happened with Courtni Webb, the high-school senior who got suspended for writing a poem in which she […]

As the gun control debate rages on in light of last week’s horrific events at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, another debate is […]

It used to be that when people were down and out, they’d hit a smoky bar for a while, and drown their sorrows in a […]

Psychedelic drugs are making a comeback. No, not at Phish concerts (where they never left). They’re making a comeback in the medical world, where studies […]

When I first wrote about now 10-year-old January Schofield, the little girl had been recently diagnosed with schizophrenia and was on heavy-duty psychiatric medications. Her […]

If Jesse Jackson Jr. has bipolar disorder, we should all be concerned about his well-being and hope he gets the treatment he’ll need to cope. […]

At last we know what’s been troubling Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. According to yesterday’s announcement from the Mayo Clinic (which Jackson’s office didn’t sanction), he’s […]

It’s not news that the real world isn’t the only world out there anymore. The virtual universe of the Internet, social media and smartphones is […]

It’s not news that the real world isn’t the only world out there anymore. The virtual universe of the Internet, social media and smartphones is […]

Americans are drowning in stuff, or so says a recent study from UCLA’s Center on Everyday Lives of Families. Conducted from 2001-2005, the study surveyed […]