Taylor Beck

“This is how differences between cousins like us get created and sustained.” On Keynes & race, in conversation with my cousin.

One of biology’s wilder facts is that we’re all family. You and me, sure, but also me and a mushroom.

“All families are likely to have some madness tucked away somewhere.”

A review of “another kind of madness” by Steve Hinshaw.

A new brain-scanning technique could change the way scientists think about human focus.

Ketamine’s remarkable effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness.

How brain cell vibrations could help treat diseases like Alzheimer's

The Personas of David Foster Wallace

"Fiction softens the border between you and me, between me and me, between the reader and the writer."

One day, scientists will be able to “see” the images and memories in our minds

Researchers are investigating how hallucinogens might be used to model—and develop treatments for—psychosis

A stranger reading Trimalchio on the subway seemingly opens up the doors to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s New York....

One in three black men in the United States will spend time incarcerated. This is old news. What gets less attention is another injustice: the gap in how America treats — or, more often, punishes — the mentally ill.

How David Foster Wallace Takes Readers Places They Don’t Like to Go

The Man Behind New App Shadow Wants To Quantify Our...

What happened when I told my girlfriend I have bipolar disorder