Can EMDR Change Your Brain?
By Quinton SkinnerWhy eye movement desensitization and reprocessing — or EMDR — may help treat trauma.
Why eye movement desensitization and reprocessing — or EMDR — may help treat trauma.
New research is exploring how natural and synthetic psychedelics affect the brain.
Can a single workout help our memory?
Traumatic stress can be debilitating and terrifying. Movement therapy — involving increasingly accessible, thoughtful approaches to exercise — offers new hope.
When ground into flours, most grains act like sugar in the body, triggering weight gain, inflammation and blood-sugar imbalances. Here’s why whole kernels are a better option than processed grains.
Watching my toddler show love to others has expanded my own heart’s capacity. Did she develop this emotion by nature or nurture?
Writer Greg O’Brien fights his early-onset dementia by chronicling the effects of the disease in the stunning memoir On Pluto.
A new study suggests movement and meditation may conquer dementia and depression. My own experience suggests it promotes an odd sort of conviviality.
A new study suggests that my hearing problems could cause my brain to give up some of its cognitive functions.
A new study is the first to link the cerebellum to the creative process.
The science behind lust, attraction, and attachment — and the enduring mysteries that data can’t explain.
The tick-borne illness, one of the fastest growing diseases in the United States, can be disabling if left untreated.
At best, the dyes are aesthetic enhancers. At worst — and as many "real food" advocates claim — they are a public-health menace linked to behavioral problems and other consequences.
New research on mice provides clues to how excess body fat harms the human brain — and how exercise may help.
Five ways that staff writer and resident "gym rat" Maggie Fazeli Fard is beefing up her brain.
For people who drink milk, full-fat and organic may be a healthier option than conventional dairy.
There's a reason why some folks never take to exercise. It's all in their head.
French lessons haven't made me fluent, but at least my brain's getting a good workout.
Part 2 of our series on MovNat.
One of the world’s most prolific and innovative choreographers offers wisdom on cultivating and sharing your own creative gifts.
Erwan Le Corre, 40, is the founder of MovNat, a forward-thinking approach to fitness that finds its practical inspiration in humanity’s primitive roots. Le Corre and his team hold outdoor training workshops in West Virginia and Thailand, where participants rediscover, practice and master the movement skills of their nature-dwellling ancestors. Born in France, Le Corre is considered one of the leading pioneers of the international primal-fitness movement.