Mental Health

Steve Ramirez wants to zap bad memories and upgrade good ones.

Nicole Prause left academia to study sexuality without institutional limits. Now she’s challenging orthodox views of climax and pornography.

Analyzing your pet’s genome may shed light on human aging, mental health, and cancer.

Gene tests for antidepressants are going mainstream — and getting more confusing. Here’s a guide.

Sure, your brain is more dynamic than once thought. But harnessing those powers is tricky.

Karl Deisseroth developed astounding technologies that light up the brain and render it transparent. Yet some of his most compelling breakthroughs still come from listening to patients.

The same device that is driving you crazy could hold the keys to solving our mental health crisis.

Psychiatry’s biggest breakthrough in decades might come from machines that don’t need to understand the mind at all.

They’re avoiding many of the substances that got earlier generations high. But are they better off?