“Why do I struggle to visualize a future for myself, let alone a positive one?” In the 10 years I’ve been practicing as a clinical psychotherapist, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard some ...

When Nick Watkins was a child, he pasted articles about space exploration into scrapbooks and drew annotated diagrams of rockets. He knew this because, years later, he still had the scrapbooks, and ...

BEAUMONT, TX: When David Silvernail was in his mid-50s, his son was tested for ADD. Among the questions the doctor asked was if his son could see the word “cat” in his head. Silvernail realized that ...

This is Science, Quickly, a podcast from Scientific American. I’m Stefano Montali. If I asked you to visualize, say, Harry Potter, you’d probably have no problem picturing him in your mind: a teenage ...

When David Silvernail was in his mid-50s, his son was tested for ADD. Little did he know, his son's medical exam would lead him to a different diagnosis of his own. BEAUMONT, TX: When David Silvernail ...