Are There Laws That Govern How We Think? We experience thought as personal, fluid, and often unpredictable. Ideas emerge, decisions form, doubts intrude. Yet beneath this subjective experience may lie somet...

For years, I have emphasized that one of the most powerful tools we have for protecting the brain is deep, restorative sleep. In my upcoming book, Brain Defenders, I discuss this extensively in the context o...

Is Psychiatry Looking in the Wrong Place? A Radical Rethink of Brain Health There are few figures in modern psychiatry who have done more to bring the conversation about brain health into the public than ...

For years, I have been advocating the Mediterranean diet as the gold standard for brain health. But new research makes it clear that simply adding healthy foods is not enough. A recent study of over 2,100 a...

A remarkable study by Dean Ornish, MD, and Rudolph Tanzi, PhD, published in Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy (2024), is challenging long-held assumptions about Alzheimer’s disease and reinforcing a message...

For as long as I’ve been in medicine, I’ve been fascinated by what it really means to think like a physician, not just recall facts, but reason through uncertainty. That has always been our gold standard. Bu...