Why Is Congress Afraid Of Consciousness?
Over the past couple of years, I’ve noticed an apparent reluctance among the U.S. government agencies that fund neuroscience (e.g., the Defense Advanced Projects Agency and...
Why It's So Hard to Make Healthy Decisions
In his 2018 TEDMED Talk (just released now) David Asch asserts, “Changing someone’s mind with information is hard enough, changing their behavior with information is harder...
Why Mental Bandwidth Could Explain the Psychology Behind Poverty
In her recent paper, “The Psychological Lives of the Poor,” Schofield, a professor in the department of medical ethics and health policy at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine...
Why Schools Are Offering Money, and More, to Get Kids Vaccinated
With the CDC recommendation of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, schools across the country are offering incentives to boost vaccination rates...
Why the first, FDA-approved pill with a sensor will be controversial
The first drug with a sensor embedded in a pill that alerts doctors when patients have taken their medications has been given a thumbs-up by the Food and Drug Administration,...
Why Trump's comments on mental health have drawn attention to a Penn professor's work
A 2015 paper by Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy Assistant Professor Dominic Sisti has roared back into conversations as pundits re-evalute how individuals like...
Why UCSD keeps denying a genital mutilation study involving Kenyan girls
For years, a distinguished UC San Diego economist has wanted to stop young girls in Kenya from undergoing genital mutilation by offering them and their families money toward...