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Is 40 Weeks the Ideal Maternity Leave Length?

By Sharon Lerner — 2011

Long leaves are good for both babies and mothers, but extra-long leaves may not be, and other surprising lessons from Europe.

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How Parenthood Will Change Your Sex Life, According to a Neuroscientist

As a sex therapist and neuroscientist, I’m often called upon to help clients cope with the ups and downs (and ins and outs) of rebooting their sex lives after parenthood. The truth: Finding your way back to satisfying sex can be a big challenge.

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Nan Wise
2020
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The New Science of Motherhood

Through studies of fetal DNA, researchers are revealing how a child can shape a mom’s heart and mind—literally

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Abigail Tucker
2021
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Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform

Frenzied executives who fidget through meetings, lose track of their appointments, and jab at the “door close” button on the elevator aren’t crazy—just crazed. They suffer from a newly recognized neurological phenomenon that the author, a psychiatrist, calls attention deficit trait, or ADT.

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Edward Hallowell
2005
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Cultivating Empathy in My Children, from a Neuroscience Perspective

Empathy is divided into cognitive, emotional and applied empathy, all of which are valuable. For empathy to truly be useful to the human condition, our kids must have applied empathy, or compassion.

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Erin Clabough
2019
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When Life Flashes Before Your Eyes: A 15-Story Drop to Study the Brain’s Internal Timewarp

Understanding how the brain perceives the passage of time could lead to treatments for mental illnesses. Why does time seem to slow down during a life-threatening situation? Our reporter falls 15 stories to find out.

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Steven Kotler
2010
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Why Time Seems to Fly by as You Get Older, and How to Slow It Down: A Scientific Explanation by Neuroscientist David Eagleman

Psychologists have indeed shown in several studies that adults, especially those over the age of 40, perceive time as moving faster than it did when they were children. Why?

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David Eagleman
2019
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Why Do Kids Act Up?

According to neuroscience, our children are like puppies.

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Alison Escalante
2019
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How to End Pandemic Fights with Your Partner

Couples’ fights in lockdown are often about the unremitting intensity of togetherness. The sooner you de-escalate a fight, the sooner you can begin working on real solutions.

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Stephen Marche
2020
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The Human Brain Is a Time Traveler

Looking to the future has always defined humanity. Will A.I. become the best crystal ball of all?

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Steven Johnson
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Dr. Dan Siegel: What Hearing “Yes” Does to Your Child’s Brain

It's not about permissive parenting. It's about using "yes" to find ways to relate, which encourages kids to explore and be resilient, instead of starting at "no," which shuts them down.

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Lu Hanessian
2018
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