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Richard Restak

Richard Restak is clinical professor of neurology at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and the author of 25 books on the brain.

Split Decisions 

A renowned neuroscientist examines human experience

by Richard Restak | Monday, June 04, 2018

Going Haywire

Delusions can occur in perfectly “normal” people

by Richard Restak | Monday, September 08, 2014

Hearsay

From the divinely inspired to the pathological, a history of auditory hallucination

by Richard Restak | Thursday, March 01, 2007

Laughter and the Brain

Can humor help us better understand the most complex and enigmatic organ in the human body?

by Richard Restak | Monday, June 10, 2013

Nurtural Intelligence

The discoverer of the Flynn effect claims that genes control IQ less than you’d expect

by Richard Restak | Saturday, September 01, 2007

Empathy and Other Mysteries

Neuroscientists are discovering things about the brain that answer questions philosophers have been asking for centuries

by Richard Restak | Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Let Me Count the Ways

Are we getting more obsessive or more compulsive about diagnosing?

by Richard Restak | Monday, December 01, 2008

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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

School Survival

by Anne P. Beatty

As L.A. teachers prepare to go on strike, we’re revisiting an essay by Anne P. Beatty about her time teaching high school in South Central Los Angeles, where her homeroom class often paused for a moment of silence to mourn students who had died in drive-by shootings. Her students knew that this was not the case in wealthier school districts. “They knew that somewhere there were schools with computers that worked, just as they knew that somewhere it was safe to walk through the streets at night,” Beatty writes. “They knew it wasn’t normal for 16-year-olds to die.” But what she found shocking, her students had to learn to endure. “Apathy was involved in giving in to the violence, and there was despair over the prospect of a better future.”