Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, healthy aging and overall wellness. For ...

It's the small organ with the big job. Found at the base of our necks, the thyroid gland helps almost every part of our bodies to operate well. So when it malfunctions, our bodies will speak and some ...

High-functioning autism refers to autistic people whose living skills, including communication skills, enable them to live independently. However, the term is problematic, and it is not a clinical ...

Judith Joseph has spent most of her life building an impressive résumé. She is a board-certified psychiatrist, chair of the Women in Medicine Initiative for Columbia University’s Vagelos College of ...

Cognitive functioning affects how people think and their ability to remember things. Impairment in this area of brain health may cause a decline in how someone responds to their environment mentally ...

A few months ago, a client and I were discussing the difficult problem of work. In our society, we’re used to thinking that functioning properly means being productive—that is, being able to work and ...