The Second Arrow: Thoughts that Kill
Siddhartha Gautama, or simply the Buddha as he would later be known, lived in eastern India somewhere around 400 BCE. The Buddha, meaning, “awakened one,” spoke of a Middle Way, or halfway point, between...
Welcome to the second article in our Human Language & Communication series. If you haven’t already, we recommend that you start with the first article in the series: Words, Meaning, & Misunderstandings. In our...
Language provides the cognitive scaffolding upon which lexical thought and speech are constructed. Thought and speech, in turn, facilitate complex intrapersonal and interpersonal communication, respectively. Given the importance of language to human cognition and...
We vent about our jobs, our relationships, even ourselves. The immediate pleasure and release1 that we experience when we vent our anger leads us to a seemingly self-evident conclusion: venting provides an enduring cathartic...
Job burnout is a ubiquitous challenge in the workplace; however, the affliction seems to be particularly prevalent among physicians. In a recent article published in the journal Academic Psychiatry Drs. MacKinnon and Murray argued that...
In today’s article, we will examine the relationship between exercise and mortality. Let’s begin by reviewing some key points from the larger literature. The Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”) and the World Health Organization...
Disclosures: We love coffee. With our bias thus aired, let’s look at the literature pertaining to coffee and health. This article may seem like a post-hoc rationalization for our continued consumption of this most...
10. Vincristine & Vinblastine Vincristine and vinblastine are two related chemotherapeutic drugs used to treat cancer. Vincristine is used most often to treat non-Hodgkin’s and Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Vinblastine is also used to treat Hodgkin’s...
For every 10 pregnant women who walked into a hospital in 1840s Europe, only 9 would ever leave.1 One in 10 pregnant women died of a disease known at the time as puerperal fever,...
This is part four of our four-part introduction to neuroscience series. For a review of the motor systems at work in the brain, please see our previous article. A review of the foundational concepts...
This is part three of our four-part introduction to neuroscience series. For a review of the five senses, please see our previous article. A review of the foundational concepts in neuroscience may also serve to...