Casey Schwartz is a staff writer at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. She is currently at work on her first book, a personal look at the culture of modern psychiatry.
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Brain Scientists’ Neuro Smackdown
Does the brain’s wiring really make us who we are?... MORE
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Autism’s Impossible Number Puzzle
Why the shocking new statistics still might not reflect its true prevalence rate.... MORE
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Inside ‘Match Day’ Madness
On Friday, America’s medical students discovered, amid shouts and tears, where they will perform... MORE
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Creativity for Capitalists
Dylan versus Auden? To brainstorm or not?... MORE
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'Get On the Map!' Helps Women and Girls Change the World
Women in the World Foundation reveals an innovative new online map to showcase projects advancing... MORE
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Talia Leman Harnesses the Power of Kids
The RandomKid.org founder and Iowa teen tells Jill Iscol what she means by ‘the power of anyone.’ MORE
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sOccket Inventors: Being Young and Stubborn Helps Innovation
How two entrepreneurs light up the dimmest corners of the world with a soccer ball. MORE
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Barbara Bush: Young Leaders Can Solve the Global Health Crisis
Bush and HP’s Gabi Zedlmayer discuss how to harness technology to solve world health problems. MORE
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Culture—the Tie That Binds
In ‘Wired for Culture,’ evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel argues that we are driven by our... MORE
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Oregon’s Dr. Death Is Dying
Peter Goodwin helped create the state’s Death With Dignity Act. Now he’s about to use it.... MORE
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Is This Why You’re Depressed?
A depressed brain, says a new study, may be an organ whose regions are too inter-connected. MORE
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Xanax and Booze: Deadly Duo
Casey Schwartz looks at how mixing the drug with alcohol can be fatal. MORE
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Early Retirement for Asperger’s?
Overdiagnosed and ill defined, the syndrome seems headed for psychiatry’s scrap heap. MORE
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Can You Die of a Broken Heart?
Why Penn State's trauma may have helped kill Joe Paterno.... MORE
