:quality(70):focal(3546x1987:3556x1997)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/IYHWV3CDCNEW7EIVOJJ4666YB4.jpg "Bad therapy: ‘After some of our sessions I couldn’t go into work the next day’")
It started happening early. Mary had just begun attending a new therapist. At 31 she was grappling with some big, transformative life decisions, such as whether or not to have children, and she also had a recurring distressing false memory that would crop up when she was stressed. She found a female therapist who she … Read more
The term narcissism can conjure up images of arrogant and arrogant male self-promoters. In fact, this personality trait, with its characteristic traits of overt grandiosity, assertiveness, and superiority, is more commonly seen in men. This is because these core characteristics closely align with traditional masculine traits. In fact, up to 75% of people diagnosed with … Read more
Artificial sweeteners, from mice to humans For more than a decade, Elinav has been interested in discovering the links between nutrition, gut microbes and the risk of developing common diseases, such as obesity and diabetes, with the hope of designing personalized medicine based on microbiomes. In 2014, Elinav and her colleagues found that saccharin, sucralose, … Read more