You may have experienced the person who seems to have two sets of feelings about other people: either she idealizes a person or she seems to hate that other person. You may notice that people can go from being idealized to being disliked in an instant. Perhaps you notice this co-worker being […]

It’s not surprising that our emotions affect our health. The “Type A” personality and its relationship to heart disease was identified fifty years ago, While the research in this area has been refined, what it has found is that the hostility aspect of Type A personalities is what is associated with heart disease. […]

Among the many challenges for people with mental illness is the stigma the American Dream society places on people who have mental illnesses. While attitudes have changed somewhat towards this type of illness in the past generation, at the root is a feeling that somewhere someone messed up and the mental illness is a […]

We’ve come a long way in understanding the human brain; however, it is an extremely complex entity. It would have to be: how could something simple be the seat of consciousness and self-awareness?

What we know at this point is that the brain is composed of cells, called neurons, which are connected to each […]