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What if depression is best understood as a process that gathers momentum, rather than a fixed illness that simply appears once enough symptoms have accumulated? A difficult week becomes persistent stress. Persistent stress demands more coping. Coping becomes exhausting. Sleep, appetite, activity an…

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Turning eighteen is often presented as a doorway to independence. For many autistic young people, however, it can feel more like reaching the edge of a map. Supports available through childhood may suddenly shrink or disappear just as adult life becomes more complicated. Education, employment, rela…
A high school can contain hundreds of students sharing the same hallways, classrooms, and lunch tables, yet those students may experience very different versions of the same place. For one teenager, diversity may feel woven naturally into school life, with teachers encouraging friendships across et…
For decades, respiratory viruses seemed to follow a familiar seasonal script. As autumn cooled into winter, influenza returned, respiratory syncytial virus, better known as RSV, filled pediatric wards, and a collection of other viruses circulated alongside them. Hospitals could never predict the se…
Every day, millions of people turn to artificial intelligence for help finding the right words. A rough email can become smoother, while a quick product review becomes polished and articulate with a minimum of effort. The changes can seem harmless, and often appear very helpful in clarifying our in…
A man is raking leaves outside his own home on a crisp November afternoon in Ithaca, New York. The task is ordinary, even pleasurable: repetitive physical work in an affluent, leafy neighborhood. Then a white couple stop their car. The woman calls the man over and asks whether he would like another…
What happens between having an opinion and writing a convincing argument? For many teenagers, the distance is surprisingly large. A student may argue energetically with friends, spot weaknesses in someone else’s reasoning, and explain why a rule seems unfair, yet struggle when asked to turn those a…
A lottery ticket is small enough to slip into a pocket, but the forces that shape gambling behavior can stretch across families, neighborhoods, shopping districts, and entire communities. A Massachusetts study led by Dr. Kendra Pugh asks an important but deceptively simple question: when gambling b…
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