Does brain training make you smart?
You can boost your brainpower, says Caroline Williams, but it’s not as simple as just giving your head a work-out
How to die well
Lack of faith is no impediment to a decent death – or to helping another through theirs, says Johannes Klabbers
Trump’s personality will help us learn how our minds work
Intense scrutiny of the president-elect’s neurological quirks provide a starting point for insight into what makes us so creative, and so destructive
Are you too old to find success?
The web is cluttered with listicles offering the supposedly reassuring information that, say, JK Rowling wasn’t a publishing sensation until, well, her early 30s
Can insomnia be cured by online therapy?
Up to half of us have problems sleeping – and some experts say online treatment may soon become the norm. But which tool should you use?
The misery of weird phobias: ‘In the office, there are buttons everywhere’
Having a fear of buttons may sound hilarious, but in reality it can be debilitating. Patients need to be taken more seriously, by both the media and doctors, say experts
CBT ‘should be routinely offered’ to women with premenstrual syndrome
Gynaecologists advise that cognitive behavioural therapy could help women manage the symptoms of PMS
Can worrying about your health make you ill?
People with health anxiety are more likely to develop heart disease, says a study – news that will only make them more stressed. Psychological therapy is the best treatment …
Can moaning ever make you happy?
Railing against minor irritations is like falling out with your partner, then picking fights, over and over, for the sake of it. And when has that ever helped?
Susie Orbach: the poetry of therapy
Sigmund Freud’s ‘talking cure’ disrupted the doctor-patient relationship, and the back and forth of polite conversation; now the language of therapy has taken on a rhythm of its own