Lindsay Abrams

Lindsay Abrams is an editorial fellow with The Atlantic Health channel. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times.

Study: People Empathize With Robots

Study: People Empathize With Robots

Participants in a German study did not react well to videos depicting robot torture. More »

Study: Green Space Means More for Satisfaction Than a Neighborhood's Average Income

Study: Green Space Means More for Satisfaction Than a Neighborhood's Average Income

How strongly people's mental health and life satisfaction correlated with their proximities to parks and gardens More »

Kilts for a More Fertile Tomorrow

Kilts for a More Fertile Tomorrow

"Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it." -Braveheart (1995) More »

Study: Spayed and Neutered Dogs Live Longer

Study: Spayed and Neutered Dogs Live Longer

Bob Barker is a prophet. More »

Study: People Who Are Famous and Successful Have Shorter Lives

Study: People Who Are Famous and Successful Have Shorter Lives

Earning an obituary in the New York Times is generally a good marker for above-average longevity, as long as that success in life isn't accompanied by fame. More »

In Boston, Psychological First Aid

In Boston, Psychological First Aid

A disaster-response behavioral health specialist discusses priorities. More »

A Case for Singing to Your Child

A Case for Singing to Your Child

A clinical trial of a music therapy program showed how lullabies, sung by parents, help premature infants. More »

Study: Temporary Hearing Loss Is Protective

Study: Temporary Hearing Loss Is Protective

Exposed to very loud sounds, the inner ears of mice secreted a hormone that caused temporary hearing impairment but also protected their ears from further damage. More »

Study: Listening to Certain Sounds Seems to Improve Sleep

Study: Listening to Certain Sounds Seems to Improve Sleep

Participants played "pink noise" that was synchronized to their brain rhythms slept more deeply and had increased memory retention. More »

Study: There Seems to Be a Universal Brain Response to Music

Study: There Seems to Be a Universal Brain Response to Music

People who listened to classical music inside an fMRI machine had remarkably synchronized brain patterns that aren't seen in other contexts. More »

Why Don't We Just Put IUDs in the Water?

Why Don't We Just Put IUDs in the Water?

By so many measures, intrauterine devices are the best form of birth control. Why are they still so rarely used? More »

Study: We're Closer to Identifying the Genes That Cause Laziness

Study: We're Closer to Identifying the Genes That Cause Laziness

Researchers bred rats that couldn't get enough of their exercise wheels -- and isolated the genes that appear to motivate them. More »

Study: Google Searches Reveal Mental Health Patterns

Study: Google Searches Reveal Mental Health Patterns

Search terms implied that people are 24 percent less likely to consider suicide in the summer, among other seasonal fluctuations that may be useful in epidemiology for illnesses that are difficult to track. More »

Study: Walking Can Be as Good as Running

Study: Walking Can Be as Good as Running

People who did equivalent amounts of running and walking saw the same degree of benefit in terms of blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, and heart disease More »

Study: 'Organic' Labels Make Food Taste Healthier

Study: 'Organic' Labels Make Food Taste Healthier

People reported that cookies and chips they believed to be organic "tasted lower in fat and calories." More »

When Medical Literature Included Unicorns

When Medical Literature Included Unicorns

"We know not the real truth of this matter to this day ..." More »

Study: Balding Men at Higher Risk for Heart Disease

Study: Balding Men at Higher Risk for Heart Disease

"Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now." More »

Study: Why We Shrink With Age

Study: Why We Shrink With Age

Beyond the basic anatomic reasons, there are unexpected correlations -- like that people who do not complete high school seem to lose an extra centimeter, and city people shrink less. More »

Study: People Who Eat More Fish Live Longer

Study: People Who Eat More Fish Live Longer

Members of the 64-and-older set whose blood is rich in dietary omega-3s lived an average of 2.2 years longer. More »

Study: Hand Gestures Help Us Learn Math

Study: Hand Gestures Help Us Learn Math

Gesticulation seems to drive home abstract concepts. More »

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