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 »
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Lindsay Abrams is an editorial fellow with The Atlantic Health channel. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times.
A clinical trial of a music therapy program showed how lullabies, sung by parents, help premature infants. More »
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 »
Participants played "pink noise" that was synchronized to their brain rhythms slept more deeply and had increased memory retention. More »
People who listened to classical music inside an fMRI machine had remarkably synchronized brain patterns that aren't seen in other contexts. More »
By so many measures, intrauterine devices are the best form of birth control. Why are they still so rarely used? More »
Researchers bred rats that couldn't get enough of their exercise wheels -- and isolated the genes that appear to motivate them. More »
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 »
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 »
People reported that cookies and chips they believed to be organic "tasted lower in fat and calories." More »
"We know not the real truth of this matter to this day ..." More »
"Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now." More »
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 »
Members of the 64-and-older set whose blood is rich in dietary omega-3s lived an average of 2.2 years longer. More »
Bravo's newest reality series uniquely focuses on African American women in medicine, but many see it as the opposite of "empowerment." More »
Women who used computers to design their ideal man saw a change in their preferred facial features after going on the pill. More »
People who got 35 grams of protein at breakfast were less hungry throughout the day and saw favorable changes in the hormones and brain signals that control appetite. More »
"It is a poor thing to look for reward, as it destroys the satisfaction of the deed; furthermore, the chances are that if your act was a really meritorious one, you will not get it." More »
Fruit flies fed organic produce from Whole Foods lived longer and laid more eggs than those fed the store's conventionally grown offerings. More »
New research says Kindergartners who watched a ton of TV were at a slightly increased risk of becoming bullies by second-grade. More »
