Voices in the Family Archive

We often think of teenagers as obsessed with their phones, selfies, or being popular. Researchers are learning more about what help ...

Millions of American adults experience depression. There are treatments and medications that can help. But in a recent study of more than ...

When faced with a degenerative disease or life threatening illness, might hopelessness improve the quality of our lives? On this ...

How intelligent a person is can predict many things in terms of their quality of life: success, money, or power. But researchers say we s ...

A lot of people dread conversations around the table during the holidays. We try to avoid hot-button topics like politics, and maybe igno ...

One third of American children are overweight or obese, so weight is a topic that comes up in doctors offices a lot. In a ...

Mindfulness meditation helps many people deal with stress, and other mental health issues. But when researchers tried mindfulness with pr ...

Are you checking out all of your friends’ amazing Thanksgiving pictures on social media? And does it look like everybody had ...

It’s Thanksgiving week. You’re probably thinking about all of the work you need to get done before Thursday… The ...

Happiness is more than the feeling you get after eating a delicious meal. But what is happiness? On this Voices in the Family special, Dr ...

A Harvard research study spanning 80 years that looked into the life and health trajectories of well over a thousand people offers some i ...

There’s a new study on romantic relationships titled “My life has become a major distraction from my cell phone.” ...

As the population ages, more and more people want to stay in their own home as opposed to transitioning to a nursing home facility. There ...

Research points to a weapon in the fight against depression that may sound counterintuitive: Sleep deprivation. In their weekly c ...

A combination of older and newer treatments had the best results for patients in a recent study on anxiety. Researchers at a German ...