By any objective measure, the United States doesn't train enough medical doctors to meet the nation's needs. That means graduates from other countries are needed. Aaron takes a look at foreign medical graduates, an essential element of...

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a brain disorder that creates faulty and inaccurate perceptions about your appearance. For some people you can even have delusional beliefs that make you think the flaws you see...

Not every emotional response is pathological. Not all fear or depressed mood is pathological. We’re emotional beings who respond to our environment. And your response takes on a certain flavor that’s influenced by your...

After a skirmish at sea and long days of being battered by waves, Väinämöinen— a powerful bard as old as the world itself— washed up on the shores of distant Pohjola. A cunning witch nursed him back to health but demanded a reward for...

There’s a concept in psychoanalytic theory called the corrective emotional experience. The classical definition of the corrective emotional experience is that it’s a therapeutic process where the therapist helps you...

Kleptomania is an impulse control disorder that requires 5 criteria according to the Diagnostics and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th edition.
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What is complex PTSD or cPTSD and how is it different from PTSD? How do we treat these problems? Think of PTSD as an emotional reaction to a traumatic situation. Complex PTSD is not an official...

It's very hard to watch a loved one need help but not get it. What you do to help depends on why they refuse help and how much they accept that they have an illness. See this video on The Imposter Syndrome for one way this...

When you feel distress, usually there is a combination of emotions and THOUGHTS associated with the emotions. The emotions are real reactions to thoughts that are usually distorted in some way. Here’s what you can do to break...

Dissociation is an experience where your attention and emotions are disconnected from the present moment. It’s like you’re here, but your mind and emotions are somewhere else. This is a general term and...

Antonio Pérez Moreno is a Physics and Chemistry teacher at the Instituto de Educación Secundaria Ies Sierra Luna, Cádiz, Spain. Antonio began teaching support classes in primary and secondary school when he was studying Chemical Sciences...

Defense mechanisms are a set of mental strategies we use to ward off anxiety. These range from the primitive, like denial and projection, to more complex ones like sublimation. In this video I share five of the most common primitive...

Cancer is a very clever, adaptable disease. To defeat it, says medical researcher and educator Paula Hammond, we need a new and powerful mode of attack. With her colleagues at MIT, Hammond engineered a nanoparticle one-hundredth the size...

This project envisions a future where 3-D robotic systems can be produced and designed using 2-D desktop technology fabrication methods. If this feat is achieved, it would be possible for the average person to design, customize and print...

In a dark cave, bats can't see much. But even with their eyes shut, they can navigate rocky topography at incredible speeds. This is because bats aren't just guided by their eyes, but rather, by their ears. It may seem impossible to see...

Tweeting may not decrease your stress, but the twitter of some birds just might. And can we make people forget their memories?

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. He is the former Director of the Schomburg...

According to a recent report from the National Center for Educational Statistics violence, including student violence against teachers, is on the rise in America's schools. Statistics show that early 7% of high...

This video models the lesson in the classroom, discusses lesson objectives and provides pointers for teaching about how labor statistics are calculated. Students participate in a role-play activity calculate the unemployment rate and...

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