The podcast Chasing Life With Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of life’s mysteries big and small.

Blame cell death and fungi for brain decay, not TikTok. TikTok won't really make your brain rot. That doesn't happen until ...

like anorexia nervosa. In other words: Some now believe that for a small group of patients who have exhausted standard therapies, the removal of brain tissue is a valid treatment path. Still ...

In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea ...

Genes aren’t destiny. The ARCH × Φ model explains how brain wiring, motivation, culture, and timing interact—multiplying risk ...

One reason it's common to be alarmed about increasing autism diagnoses, says Gross, is that societies generally haven't built ...

But there's no denying that it's seen a surge of interest in recent years. Ketamine clinics—or treatment centers that offer infusions of the drug—have popped up all over the country, not to mention on ...

When his wife’s mental-health struggles and his own malaise threatened their life together, the author discovered the joys of ...

Legalization is pushing community mental health to the brink. America’s ongoing marijuana-legalization experiment will have ...