Jia Tolentino, a staff writer for The New Yorker, talks about how – with enough money – it’s easy for anyone to get their hands on these drugs – and how people who take them might underestimate the health risks.
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The mental health effects of caring for dementia patients
Dasha Kiper is consulting clinical director of support groups at CaringKind. She discusses the disconnect between the healthy mind of a caregiver and the ailing mind of a patient, and the counterproductive ways we try to help but cause harm instead.
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Why you should be scheduling time for fun
Psychologist Mike Rucker joins us to discuss why adding fun back into the daily grind will make you more productive and lead to a happier life.
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Your brain could supercharge your immune system
Science journalist Diana Kwon joins us to discuss promising new research on mice that demonstrates healing through brain stimulation and the lessons scientists are hoping will translate to human patients.
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Plenty of people hear voices nobody else can hear
Ben Alderson-Day, an associate professor of psychology, joins us to discuss the psychology and neuroscience of feeling watched or hearing voices as he tries to unravel a phenomenon felt by people the world over.
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Joy is made sweeter because we know pain
Author and poet Ross Gay joins us to share his essay collection about finding meaning in bleak times to create compassion, hope, and to better connect to our shared humanity.
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The big business of blood: Exploitation in the plasma industry
Journalist Kathleen McLaughlin shares her research into where blood plasma really comes from – a journey through the for-profit blood industry that stretches all the way to China.
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What if we didn’t think of time as money
Jenny Odell talks about why she believes our clock-watching is tied to for-profit goals and not the reality of nature and offers ways to slow down and take in the beauty of the true rhythms of life.
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The mysteries of memory and how to improve it
Andrew E. Budson discusses his work studying memory, how to control what you remember and how diet plays into this ability.
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Meet your new AI shrink
Dhruv Khullar, a physician and assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, discusses the shortage in the mental health field and the development of predictive algorithms to spot suicidal triggers.
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The impossible expectations on American mothers
Jessica Grose is an opinion writer at The New York Times who writes the newsletter On Parenting, and she joins us to talk about what successful parenting really looks like and the societal expectations we have for parents.
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What veterinarians do for pet parents
Veterinarians might not care for humans, but they still tend to members of the family. Karen Fine joins guest host Courtney Collins to discuss her dream to become a vet and the lessons she’s learned from it.
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