Dear Dr. Roberts, I'm starting my second competitive cross-country season and I am currently in physical remission from anorexia nervosa and mentally still recovering. I've found running to be incredibly helpful with the mental side to the di
What’s clear is that insight emerges from a rich casserole of experiences, emotions, and feelings in an analyst’s mind. Our intuition, what Daniel Kahneman calls our System 1, is the primary custodian of these insight-generating prompts. Wolfberg notes that “although these past experiences ...
So, to make a long story short, I have an appointment next week with a spine place for orthotics for my shoes (I have a lot of foot pain, especially recently), an appointment with a chiropractor so I can finally utilize the therapeutic massages my insurance covers (something I’ve been...
An important part of the healing is a process called ‘self-concept reorganisation’, which involves rebuilding and strengthening the sense of who you are, independent of the relationship. [bctt tweet=”What if your healing from a breakup could be stronger and quicker? Science may have found th...
I thought I was done running from my problems. As an alcoholic, full of toxins and void of any coping mechanisms, when life got stressed my “go to” was to move or have a baby. When we bought our current house, I already had the “itch” to move. The house we bought was the...
A dangerously toxic combination of insecurity, pride, and wounds of the past created the perfect storm that led to my demise. It took years of healing, countless tears, a few more heartbreaks, and some type of divine intervention from the universe to find the one who would change my mind ...
Since digoxin is a drug with a narrow therapeutic/toxic ratio, we raised the hypothesis that the association between digoxin and post myocardial infarction mortality may have a dose-dependent relationship. The purpose of this study was to evaluate this hypothesis. We retrospectively analyzed data ...
With the rapidly expanding use of fluorescent lamps (FLs) and increasing interest in conservation and sustainable utilization of critical metals such as rare earth elements (REEs), the recovering of REEs from phosphors in waste FLs is becoming a critical environmental and economic issue. To effective...
After more than a year and a half, I walked away from my first postdoc without a single publication. I have now made another lab my “home”. Things are different. I’m still a postdoc, but I’m happier. Hopefully, you won’t ever need this advice. If you don’t, understand tha...
As control samples, the first urine in the morning was used from 24 subjectively healthy volunteers aged at a median of 48 years (IQR 27); female/male, 15/9, with a negative antigen SARS-CoV-2 test on the sampling day; and reporting not having had acute COVID-19 disease or any posit...