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“Museotherapy” is gaining ground. In Europe, cultural pursuits are connecting communities and improving collective wellbeing, according to the Culture as Care Report. Loic Manegarium/Pexels

Museums on prescription: how cultural activities are becoming crucial to the public health debate

Research on how heading to a museum could be good for the brain and general wellbeing suggests that culture fixes are an important resource for public health and social cohesion.
Part of the challenge of finding a biomarker for mental illness is the environment’s significant influence. rudall30/iStock via Getty Images Plus

I’m part of the team writing the next bible of psychiatry – for the first time, the DSM will use biology to understand mental disorders

Despite advances in neuroscience, the underlying biology of mental illness has remained elusive. The DSM-6 will attempt to integrate neurobiology into how clinicians diagnose and treat psychiatric conditions.
From hysteria to conversion disorder, to psychogenic or psychosomatic illness, functional neurological disorder has gone by many names. anilakkus/iStock via Getty Images Plus

One of the most common brain disorders is one of the most misunderstood – how functional neurological disorder is both ‘all in your head’ and beyond it

Millions of people suffer from debilitating symptoms their doctors don’t quite believe. But advances in neuroscience and education may be changing the tides for treatment.
A manuscript in Elvish written on silk parchment. The Elvish language was created by Tolkien for The Lord of the Rings. Luca Lorenzelli/Shutterstock

Elvish, Klingon and Pig Latin: what can invented languages teach us about the human brain?

From pidgins to Tolkien and Esperanto, humans have created entirely new languages for many different reasons.

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