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''Oh my, you picked up the phone.'' The caller sounded genuinely surprised and held her breath for a moment before telling her story. For more than a year, she and [...]

Byline: Benedict Carey 'Oh my, you picked up the phone.' The caller sounded genuinely surprised and held her breath for a moment before telling her story. For more than a [...]

Mother and daughter, they developed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which has helped millions of people discover if they are introverts or extroverts or thinkers or feelers. This article is part [...]

It was an answer to Freudian analysis: a pragmatic, thought-monitoring approach to treating anxiety, depression and other mental disorders, and it changed psychiatry. Dr. Aaron T. Beck, whose brand of [...]

I've reported on behavior and mental health for 20 years. As I exit, I can't help but wonder why researchers have placed so little emphasis on helping people in distress [...]

During the pandemic, suicidal thinking is up. And families find that hospitals can't handle adolescents in crisis. When the pandemic first hit the Bay Area last spring, Ann thought that [...]

''Right now. Right now feels like every other minute of the day, of the week, of the month. Right now feels like forever. ... Right now feels so long and [...]

Byline: Benedict Carey An outbreak aboard a September flight from Dubai to New Zealand offers researchers, and airlines, an opportunity to study in-transit contagion. The millions of airline passengers who [...]

Why do some mass gatherings turn violent? Experts in crowd behavior say there's still much to learn. The reign of King Louis Philippe, the last king of France, came to [...]

An outbreak aboard a September flight from Dubai to New Zealand offers researchers, and airlines, an opportunity to study in-transit contagion. The millions of airline passengers who traveled over the [...]

Byline: Carl Zimmer and Benedict Carey A newly identified variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus appears to be more contagious than established ones. Here's what scientists know. In recent days, the [...]

A newly identified variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus appears to be more contagious than established ones. Here's what scientists know. In recent days, the world has watched with curiosity and [...]

Byline: Benedict Carey Slowly, machine-learning systems are beginning to generate ideas, not just test them. Machine-learning algorithms seem to have insinuated their way into every human activity short of toenail [...]

Byline: James Glanz, Benedict Carey and Hannah Beech Scientists were initially skeptical that a mutation made the coronavirus more contagious. But new research has changed many of their minds. As [...]

Scientists were initially skeptical that a mutation made the coronavirus more contagious. But new research has changed many of their minds. As the coronavirus swept across the world, it picked [...]

The Department of Veterans Affairs has turned to machine-learning to help identify vets at risk of taking their own lives. At a recent visit to the Veterans Affairs clinic in [...]

Slowly, machine-learning systems are beginning to generate ideas, not just test them. Machine-learning algorithms seem to have insinuated their way into every human activity short of toenail clipping and dog [...]

In a review of several trials, the World Health Organization found that Gilead's drug did not improve survival rates for patients nor did it help them recover. The World Health [...]

Two new studies clarify how Covid-19 spreads among young adults and expose the limits of quarantine measures. Young, healthy people who contract the coronavirus are often asymptomatic, very rarely need [...]

Research using cellphone data in 10 U.S. cities last spring could help influence officials' decisions on new restrictions as cases resurge around the country. Restaurants, gyms, cafes and other crowded [...]

A new study offers the strongest evidence yet of ''time cells'' in the brain. Merriam-Webster's defines a time warp as a ''discontinuity, suspension or anomaly'' in the otherwise normal passage [...]

Dr. Lilienfeld disturbed the order in his own field by questioning the science behind many of its conceits, therapies and tools. Scott Lilienfeld, an expert in personality disorders who repeatedly [...]

Several recent studies shed light on the pandemic preoccupations of sleepers. The swarm of insects -- sometimes gnats, sometimes wasps or flying ants -- arrived early in this year of [...]

Half of New York's students should be tested every two weeks, researchers estimate. Officials plan to test only 10 to 20 percent of each school every month. New York City's [...]

Byline: Benedict Carey In a new study, psychologists tried to get a handle on the personality types that might be prone to outlandish beliefs. More than 1 in 3 Americans [...]

Byline: Benedict Carey Lying and cheating behavior comes in several distinct flavors, a recent study found. In this age of trolls and bots and digital impostors, words like 'crank' and [...]

Byline: Benedict Carey Experts have long predicted that psychotherapy was poised to go virtual. The pandemic may prove them right. For about two years, Michael Raymos made the drive from [...]

Byline: Benedict Carey and James Glanz A computer model of the cruise-ship outbreak found that the virus spread most readily in microscopic droplets light enough to linger in the air. [...]

She and other top health officials in the Trump administration warn states of a deepening spread of the coronavirus, in both rural and urban areas. Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the [...]

Millions of families face an excruciating choice this fall: Should their children attend if local schools reopen their classrooms, and risk being exposed to the coronavirus? Or should they stay [...]

A computer model of the cruise-ship outbreak found that the virus spread most readily in microscopic droplets light enough to linger in the air. In a year of endless viral [...]

But, experts caution, the findings highlight a period when few precautions were in place, and do not apply to current discussions about reopening schools. In a new analysis, pediatric researchers [...]

The pressure to bring American students back to classrooms is intense, but the calculus is tricky with infections still out of control in many communities. As school districts across the [...]

Researchers have developed a model that uses social-media and search data to forecast outbreaks of Covid-19 well before they occur. Judging when to tighten, or loosen, the local economy has [...]

It started small. A man near Seattle had a persistent cough. A woman in Chicago had a fever and shortness of breath. By mid-February, there were only 15 known coronavirus [...]

Researchers claim that a predominating variant had a ''fitness advantage.'' But many experts are not persuaded. For months, scientists have debated whether a variant of the coronavirus that has come [...]

Byline: Benedict Carey Some health officials have forecast a steep rise in new mental health disorders. But the impact isn't likely to last. The psychological fallout from the coronavirus pandemic [...]

Some health officials have forecast a steep rise in new mental health disorders. But the impact isn't likely to last. The psychological fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has yet to [...]

As virtual classrooms and online learning proliferate, researchers are working to quantify what works and what doesn't. Over four days in mid-March, Cindy Hansen, an 11th grade English teacher at [...]

Geneticists said more evidence is needed to determine if a common genetic variation of the virus spreads more easily between people. For months, scientists have debated why one genetic variation [...]

Men were eight times as likely to kill themselves by gunshot than non-owners. Women were 35 times as likely. The decision to buy a handgun for the first time is [...]

The notion of a single patient zero is both theatrical and real: In any new epidemic, some unlucky soul seeds the first infection, several links of which are fated to [...]

Byline: Benedict Carey Psychiatrists are confronted with an urgent natural experiment, and the outcome is far from predictable. The mental health toll of the coronavirus pandemic is only beginning to [...]

Psychiatrists are confronted with an urgent natural experiment, and the outcome is far from predictable. The mental health toll of the coronavirus pandemic is only beginning to show itself, and [...]

The coronavirus outbreak in New York City became the primary source of infections around the United States, researchers have found. New York City's coronavirus outbreak grew so large by early [...]

One of the mostly forgotten chestnuts of the newspaper racket was the photograph, always on the first snowy day of the year, of some frozen formation that resembled a human [...]

Byline: Benedict Carey The pandemic has closed many mental-health residential centers, sending residents home to families ill-equipped for the challenges. The panic spirals up from somewhere in Connor Langan's midsection, [...]

The pandemic has closed many mental-health residential centers, sending residents home to families ill-equipped for the challenges. The panic spirals up from somewhere in Connor Langan's midsection, and so quickly [...]