December 20, 2024

Grief Makes Us Time Travelers

A neuroscientist studying memory, I used to believe time was linear. Then my mother had a stroke. I am in my pajamas, watching a Netflix documentary […]
January 9, 2024

To Prepare for Psychedelic Therapy, Doctors Breathe Their Way to an Altered State

The instructions were simple: Lying on cots while wearing eyeshades, participants were directed to take deep belly breaths without pause to the beat of fast-paced music […]
November 9, 2021

I Have to Believe John Sarno's Book Cured My Chronic Pain

I Have to Believe This Book Cured My Pain <!– local asset –> The Pain Brain I Have to Believe This Book Cured My Pain <!– […]
July 9, 2021

He Couldn’t Remember That We Broke Up

When my ex injured his brain in a fall and thought we were still together, I had to fill in the gaps. I used to receive […]
November 10, 2020

Brain Scientists Explore the How of When

Merriam-Webster’s defines a time warp as a “discontinuity, suspension or anomaly” in the otherwise normal passage of time; this year all three terms could apply. It […]