Psychiatry

Your brain on food: Brain signals differ between lean vs. obese people

But losing weight doesn’t improve impaired signals.
Vagus nerves help us rest, digest and restore. Can you reset them to feel better?

The vagus nerves also play a part in why socializing, sex and sports are good for our health.
How should enuresis (bedwetting) be managed in children age five or older?

Educate and reassure patients and families that no treatment is necessary for primary monosymptomatic enuresis: nearly all children will outgrow bedwetting with time.
If anxiety is in my brain, why is my heart pounding? A psychiatrist explains the neuroscience and physiology of fear

A psychiatrist and neuroscientist explains how fear flows through a human being.
How smart nutrition can soothe burnout for pharmacists

As we know, diet is a modifiable factor in burnout risk. Chronic stress influences the amounts and types of foods individuals eat, contributing to excessive eating and under-eating.
POLL: Do you feel an emotional impact when you learn a patient has died?

Take our weekly doctor poll. See what your colleagues say.
9 signs of inflammation in the body. Could an anti-inflammatory diet help?

A look at the impact of anti-inflammatory diets on rheumatoid arthritis, dementia and depression
Neurosurgeon investigating patient’s mystery symptoms plucks a worm from woman’s brain in Australia

The creature was the larva of an Australian native roundworm not previously known to be a human parasite.

Zuranolone for postpartum depression: Hope, hype or both?