The Best Thing For Your Brain Is Other People—Even Annoying Ones

I have spent most of my career studying what happens in the brain when people feel threatened, and what happens when other people are present during that threat. I’ve learned that the brain treats other people as a resource. Not metaphorically. Literally. The presence of a trusted companion reduces the cognitive and emotional load associated with threat.

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This Insane New Therapy Trend Is Destroying Families

Most of the major medical specialties have done something new and noteworthy within the past century. There are marked improvements in their areas of health, which can be directly tied to these advances.
But there is at least one notable exception: The field of psychiatry. Psychiatrists are the only doctors who can’t point to a single quantifiable achievement in their entire field. There has never been a documented, verifiable moment in which psychiatrists have ever made a true, measurable advancement. They haven’t stumbled into any major discoveries.

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‘The Odyssey’ Knows Fathers Matter But Doesn’t Seem to Know Why

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has seemingly silenced its online critics. The long-awaited adaptation of the classic Greek poem is one of the most profitable and best-reviewed movies of the year, clearing $264.1 million worldwide and getting a 95% score from critics and a 97% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. But this hasn’t stopped pundits from arguing back and forth whether the film is an assault on traditional values or a defense of them.

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‘No child has two dads’ billboards trigger LGBT activists

Billboards bearing the straightforward message, “No child has two dads. No child has two moms,” have begun appearing across the United States to push back on homosexual adoption and highlight the importance of marriage. The billboards are the work of Them Before Us, a “global movement defending children’s right to their mother and father,” by “put(ting) children before adults in every conversation about marriage and family.”

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