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Dan Kitwood / Getty Hallucinations Are Everywhere
Experiences like hearing voices are leading psychologists to question how all people perceive reality.
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Cliff Owen / AP The Hard-to-Trace Ingredient Behind Skyrocketing Cocaine Deaths
Often laced into popular illicit drugs, synthetic opioids are killing more people than heroin or OxyContin.
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Alex Remnick / The Star-Ledger via AP More and More States Are Outlawing Gay-Conversion Therapy
Rhode Island is poised to be the fourth state in 2017 to ban the damaging practice.
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Sarah Jung Psychics Who Hear Voices Could Be On to Something
The ways some “healthy voice hearers” cope might be able to help people with psychotic disorders.
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Denis Farrell / AP Will Trump’s Expanded Policy Against Abortion Harm HIV/AIDS Relief?
The administration’s contentious new order risks dealing a blow to one of America’s most successful global-health campaigns.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters Coming to Terms With Loss in Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘One Art’
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Oli Scarff / Getty Trump Is Driving Some American Jews to Reclaim Citizenship in Europe
Descendants of those who fled Germany decades ago consider heading back.
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Katie Martin / Emily Jan / The Atlantic Protein Powder and the Promise of Transformation
18-30 grams of protein and a lot of internalized ideas about masculinity per serving
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Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters Trump Seems to Support Bush’s AIDS Program for Now
… but will it be hobbled by his other policies?
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WIkimedia Commons Why More Writers Should Talk About Money
A new collection of essays and interviews breaks one of the biggest taboos of the literary world.
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Stefan Wermuth / Reuters Recapping Sherlock Offers a Clue to How Memories Are Stored
When viewers recount an episode, their brains all appear to retrieve the shape of its plot from the same areas.
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Reuters Reading Literature Won’t Give You Superpowers
Psychologists have failed to replicate a famous study suggesting that short fiction improves readers’ abilities to read the emotional states of others.
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Stringer / AP A Gene That Could Help Explain Why Lithium Stabilizes Mood
It's always been a mystery why the drug works to treat bipolar disorder, but a new study sheds light on a possible mechanism.
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Adriane Ohanesian / Reuters How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Diagnose Mental Disorders
Machine learning could train software to spot verbal tics associated with schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder.
