Mental Health
Find the positive in feeling negative
When you’re feeling grumpy, or irritated, or sad – the best remedy might be to embrace those negative feelings – that ...
Air Date: August 22, 2017
Listen 00:03:40New Jersey offers incentives for psychiatrists to set up shop in rural, low-income areas
Amid a national shortage of psychiatrists, residents of rural and low-income areas feel are feeling the pinch more strongly. Ech ...
9 years ago
The Violence in Charlottesville / Debating ‘The Goldwater Rule’
Guests: Peter Simi, John Gartner, Christine Aschwanden We start this hour discussing the violence in Charlottesvi ...
Air Date: August 14, 2017
Listen 0:00Guest: Joshua Green White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is perhaps the most enigmatic figure in the Trump a ...
Air Date: August 8, 2017
Listen 00:49:00Can meditation ease chronic pain?
With the country in the midst of an addiction crisis, health care providers are looking for new ways to treat their patients’ pain ...
Air Date: August 7, 2017
Listen 00:03:22Guests: Benjamin Bergen, Ben Zimmer The swift fall of former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramuc ...
Air Date: August 7, 2017
Listen 00:48:43How to support cancer patients
When a friend, a neighbor or co-worker is dealing with cancer – most of us want to chime in – with messages of support, or em ...
Air Date: July 31, 2017
Listen 00:03:27Loyalty in relationships, in politics, and at work
Guests: Dacher Keltner, Jeff Shesol When President Trump was reciting ‘Scout’s Law’ a the recent Boy Scout ...
Air Date: July 31, 2017
Listen 00:49:00Guests: Maurice Schweitzer, Dan Ariely, Maria Konnikova We all lie. It’s a skill we develop when we are just to ...
Air Date: July 24, 2017
Listen 00:49:28Time for Americans to take a break?
A recent study estimates that 36 percent of U.S. workers suffer from work-related stress that costs businesses $30 billion a year in lost workdays.
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The opioid crisis in Philadelphia
Guests: Maria Quiñones-Sánchez, Silvana Mazzella, Carol Rostucher, Mike Newall The cleanup of the heroin encamp ...
Air Date: July 12, 2017
Listen 48:59I told myself that as long as I maintained that appearance, the rotten blackness steadily devouring me from within was under control and would eventually recede.
9 years ago
Could magnesium help treat depression?
Millions of Americans suffer with depression – and traditional medications used to treat the illness are expensive, and can have a ...
Air Date: July 10, 2017
Listen 00:03:35Brooke Gladstone of “On the Media”
Guests: Brooke Gladstone On the Media’s ...
Air Date: July 10, 2017
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