What’s really driving the way people speak, react, and respond.
Children who were the peacemaker between their parents often grow up unable to identify what they genuinely want for themselves
The reason so many adults realized they were the “difficult child” in their family is that they were the only one who refused to pretend everything was fine
It’s not poverty itself that slows infant brain development — it may be whether parents feel their income is enough
The reason some people can’t stop performing for strangers but completely shut down around the people they love has nothing to do with introversion
Children told they were the smart one in the family may carry that pressure into adulthood
Vague trigger warnings can cause more intrusive memories than no warning at all — but detailed ones preserve autonomy without the cognitive damage
Children with Dravet syndrome went from hundreds of seizures a day to a handful a week after receiving a new genetic treatment called zorevunersen
GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are reducing cravings across alcohol, opioids, cocaine, and nicotine — and nothing in medicine has done that before
A study of 600,000 veterans found that GLP-1 drugs didn’t just reduce one addiction. They reduced all of them — alcohol, opioids, cocaine, nicotine, and cannabis.
Parents of military-age sons are having a conversation at the dinner table that hasn’t happened in this country since 2003, and most of them don’t know how to finish it
