“We trained pregnant and never pregnant women and we tested them on their memory for these items immediately after they learned them and then we tested them two weeks later, looking at their long term autobiographical memory. What we found was that...
“The universality of guilt – I think that my life as a child therapist has a lot of advantages; we carry the idea that ‘we are all the ages we’ve ever been’ and those magic years never disappear. There are some great things about that...
“Because I couldn’t help my son, I couldn’t do anything for him, I thought maybe I could start this group and help other people and other parents deal with this problem. What I wasn’t prepared to face was just how lonely, how alone, how sad,...
“If you randomly assign people into two groups and you give them different insignia or you have them go through different practices, they come to like each other more. It’s very easy to create this basic sense of belonging and identity. Ritual is particularly...
“One of the things that is very exciting is that this is a very robust finding. In other words, sometimes in science people see something and then it’s not replicated – Rapamycin’s impact on lifespan has been replicated. When I started...
