Self-improvement

Humans have been trying to master lie detection for thousands of years — and failing miserably.In fact, polygraphs aren't reliable. With as little as 15 minutes of training, people have been…

Many parents don't realize that kids recognize race at a very young age. In fact, research shows that at six months, they notice racial differences; preschoolers demonstrate "in-group" bias…

As a Harvard-educated school counselor and parenting coach, I encounter many fathers who feel lost and out-of-touch when it comes to raising daughters. They often wonder if they should just…

In 2007, at age 52, I was forced to retire overnight. An MRI had revealed a tumor, the size of a large eggplant, sitting on my pelvis. In 98% of these cases, my oncologist told me, bone…

What is a parent's role in raising smart, confident and successful children? What matters? What doesn't? Though I am the mother of two happy and driven entrepreneurial sons, these are…

Early childhood is a time of rapid development in the brain. In fact, 90% of a child's brain growth happens before the age of five — and a big part of it is dependent on their language…

More than two years after the emergence of a pandemic, we're still struggling with outbreaks of Covid-19 — and that means building and maintaining a strong immune system should be a top…

While many conscientious eaters think constantly about the food we're eating — how it will affect our hearts, the environment and most of all, our waistlines — we rarely think about its…

Many of us have worked with someone who had a negative effect on our emotional well-being. To cope, we've tried a few tactics, such as venting to friends, disengaging from the social scene…

Food and mood are so intricately connected that they've inspired a new area of brain study: Nutritional psychiatry, which examines how what we eat impacts how we feel.As a dietitian and…