Many people assume that morality — our sense of what is “right” and just in this world versus what is wrong — is something we formulate through a process of time, experience and thinking. We equate morality with higher reasoning and not a base instinct like hunger or the need...

Imagine an inoculation that a soldier could take within an hour or two of witnessing a particularly traumatic wartime event. If there was a drug to prevent flashbacks from occurring later on, most soldiers would probably take it. Call it an Anti-PTSD drug. But what if that drug wasn’t a drug a...

In yet another news article on yet another of-questionable-value fMRI study, hard-hitting Discovery news came up with this doozy of a headline: How Visiting Your Family Warps Your Brain Really now? Warps your brain? Wow, I can’t wait to read how someone who visits their family actually finds s...

Today while surfing YouTube, I came across an interesting video titled “My Name is Lisa�. This film is about a young girl’s challenges to cope with her mother’s progressing Alzheimer’s disease. The video was a submission to YouTube’s “Project Direct�, a competition for film creators ...