Exercise is ADHD Medication
Parents, maybe it's time to put away the Ritalin and Adderall, and start bicycling with your kids to school!An article in today's Atlantic called"Exercise is ADHD Medication" reports on new research...
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Childhood Lasts a Thousand Years
Childhood lasts a thousand years; the rest of life passes in a blink of time by comparison. Thus, an adaptation made to our particular circumstances long ago may live on in adulthood as cringing around...
View ArticleThat Person Behind You is Stealing Your Pin Number
Infrared cameras are moving from the domain of house inspectors and border guards into the hands of the general public. For $350 you can now buy one at the Apple Store. Like most technologies, we...
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Happiness With Life 1: Hold Nothing Necessary
Stress is one of the main killers of happiness. It comes in many forms — anger, anxiety, depression, and guilt. What most people don't understand, though, is that stress is not brought on by the...
View ArticleMaking Relationships Work
When people think about what makes life meaningful, they almost inevitably think of times shared with other people. In fact, we could almost argue that other people help give the most mundane events...
View ArticleThe Cure For Relationship Boredom
You may have heard that the seven-year itch has been shortened to three years, or even just two. For many married couples, the so-called honeymoon period doesn’t extend very far beyond the actual...
View ArticleTestosterone Replacement: New Male Vigor? Or Health Hazard?
Two weeks ago, an expert panel of the Food and Drug Administration voted overwhelmingly to impose strict new limits on physician prescribing of the male sex hormone testosterone.The FDA is not required...
View ArticleFalling for Dance
I am thinking a lot about time. It happens every fall. I can’t help it. Time presses in upon me so hard, squeezing me so tightly, that I can barely breathe. Everything around me is changing so rapidly,...
View ArticleWhy academic writing sucks
I'm not a huge fan of Stephen Pinker's psychology, but he is a solid writer, and I respect his perspective on many subjects. So when he wore a Chronicle article on "Why Academics Stink at Writing" I...
View ArticleThe Science Behind Pick-Up Lines: Do They Work?
Welcome back to The Attraction DoctorIn previous articles, I have explored the science behind "the game" and pick-up (here), discussed who might find pick-up techniques appealing or off-putting (here),...
View ArticleWar Gas at Home
I recently attended a comprehensive review course on medical toxicology. The topics covered went from soup to nuts, assuming that the soup was made from hemlock and the nuts were actually pellets of...
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Folk Art Reveals Resilience
Resilience and integrity might well be the subtitle to “The Folk Art of Cape Cod,” by Jeanne Marie Carley. Through folk art we see how our ancestors brought to this new country their ideas,...
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You Are Not Alone
Have you ever felt like you’re the only one who’s different? Growing up as the one Japanese boy anyone had ever seen I often felt like I was the only one and in that way I was the only one. This sense...
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Emailing Future Ph.D. Advisors
An advisor (sometimes referred to as a “major professor”) is a faculty member who directs the research and training of a Ph.D. student. When applying to a Ph.D. program, you are usually expected to...
View ArticleIs Your Reaction to Conflict Destroying Your Relationship?
Ask yourself, when in conflict: Does your pulse race and your heart pound? Do you talk over the other person? Do you turn trivial things into causes for battle? Is winning your ultimate goal? If your...
View ArticleKnow Thyself: How the Past Can Help, or Hinder, the Present
“Know Thyself” is an ancient Greek maxim, yet it is certainly relevant to our modern-day struggles to understand who we are -- and where we are going. According to Erik Erikson (1985), the primary task...
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Is School Making Your Kid Sick(er)?
When my kids were little, I tried to sell them on the notion that school was their job. As in, “I know, Monday is the worst, but see how Mom and Dad go to work anyway? School is just your office. And...
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A Primer on Life and Death, But Mostly Life
Mindy Greenstein has a lot to say about life and death, and she says it well. Her books, including The House on Crash Corner, are life-affirming and wise. Her work as a cancer psychologist at Memorial...
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Relationships: Moving from Struggle to Success
From my personal and professional experiences – as a marriage counselor -- a relationship that goes unscathed and unchallenged is a notable exception, and at times may be due to passivity or an...
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Will you be my mother?
I had been in Rwanda for a month, tracing the footsteps of the genocide in the ten thousand hills. This was my last morning, alone in the genocide museum near Kigali. The perfect place to reflect on...
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