A psychiatrist at Stanford, Kenneth Colby, is trying to program a computer to do therapy; he calls it “the mad doctor.” Conditioning by an electric shock was recently done in England to cure an ...

On February 23, the Family Medicine Interest Group hosted Family Medicine in the Valley, a lunchtime panel that brought three ...

Meditation was the focus of research at UC Davis and UCSF by Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, and others as part ...

I heard it in several settings from family medicine clinic to a thoracic surgery operating room, from different levels of the ...

Nowruz (or Norooz) marks the arrival of the new year and the first day of spring. It is an ancient tradition rooted in renewal, reflection, and hope. It is celebrated in many countries, including Iran ...

The healthcare facility in the San Francisco County jail looks like most clinics. It has exam rooms, a pharmacy, an X-ray ...

B’s parents sat around the bed, their son dying in front of them. In the last few days, he had been lucid for me. Lucid in a way that he wasn’t for his mom when she took the hour long bus ride to see ...

For more than a century, the operating room has quietly recorded not only what surgical culture values, but also how medicine responds to uncertainty and responsibility, and holds the accumulated ...

I served as EIC of Synapse from Fall 2016 to Summer 2019. I wanted to serve as the EIC because I’m passionate about science communication and wanted to help other students find their voice and hone ...

I first got involved with Synapse in 2012 and served as EIC 2014-15. Synapse meant a lot to me in a time when I both needed a creative outlet and was figuring out what to do with my future outside of ...

Every time you step into a political argument, you’re not simply debating another person – there is a battle happening in your mind that you can’t quite see: it isn’t a clash between political ...