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Vanity Fair One thing magazines love to do is call dibs on who will be the new "It" celebrities in the year to come. Sometimes they pick stars whose careers are destined to take off, occasionally they make incredible calls with…

When I tell colleagues that I am a Gestalt therapist, I generally hear “so you hit pillows” or “so you just talk to an empty chair.” The general lack of understanding of basic underlying theory and guiding philosophy is surprising given the approa

People with relatively extreme opinions may be more willing to publicly share their views than those with more moderate views, according to a new study.

By putting sensors in the brains of mice as they ran through a Quake-derived virtual reality, scientists have found a way to study neurological activity in moving animals.

There have been many studies and proposed programs suggesting that the incorporation of exercise into one’s regular routing can go a long way towards both warding off depression and treating it in those already exhibiting symptoms.

Actor John Travolta dramatically recounted Wednesday how he frantically tried to save his dying son with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation as a joyous family getaway turned tragic.

The Veterans' Administration should expect a high volume of Iraq veterans seeking treatment of post traumatic stress disorder, with researchers anticipating that the rate among armed forces

Plants in classrooms affect how students rate their teacher, U.S. horticulturalists have found. Members of the American Society for Horticultural Sciences say students in a

Group discussions tend to polarize groups so that, rather than people's views always being averaged, their initial preferences can become exaggerated and their final position is often more extreme than it was initially.

It is known that long-term and short-term memories are stored very differently in the brain. Now, researchers have found that both memory types depend on the activity of a gene called rutabaga.

Recent psychological studies are forcing people to forget almost everything they thought they knew about dating and relationships

Increasing population density, rather than boosts in human brain power, appears to have catalyzed the emergence of modern human behavior, according to a new study. High population density leads to greater exchange of ideas and skills and prevents the loss

In a nutshell, the reason for tracking your mood is to learn more about yourself and achieve better health.

Driving over a pothole may not be a big deal for most people, but for Jeff Bell, it was a source of endless frustration.

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The popular notion of subliminal information is that it streams into an unguarded mind, unchecked and unprocessed. However, neurobiologists' experiments are now revealing that the brain does consciously process subliminal information and that such process

A GoodTherapy.org News Update When it comes to feeling low, it's clear that there's no useful way to suppose that any one person has it worse, somehow, than someone else.

Cursing is an effective way to cope with pain.