A psychiatrist at Stanford, Kenneth Colby, is trying to program a computer to do therapy; he calls it “the mad doctor.” Conditioning by an electric shock was recently done in England to cure an ...

On February 23, the Family Medicine Interest Group hosted Family Medicine in the Valley, a lunchtime panel that brought three ...

Meditation was the focus of research at UC Davis and UCSF by Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, and others as part ...

I heard it in several settings from family medicine clinic to a thoracic surgery operating room, from different levels of the ...

The healthcare facility in the San Francisco County jail looks like most clinics. It has exam rooms, a pharmacy, an X-ray ...

For more than a century, the operating room has quietly recorded not only what surgical culture values, but also how medicine responds to uncertainty and responsibility, and holds the accumulated ...

I served as EIC of Synapse from Fall 2016 to Summer 2019. I wanted to serve as the EIC because I’m passionate about science communication and wanted to help other students find their voice and hone ...

I first got involved with Synapse in 2012 and served as EIC 2014-15. Synapse meant a lot to me in a time when I both needed a creative outlet and was figuring out what to do with my future outside of ...

Every time you step into a political argument, you’re not simply debating another person – there is a battle happening in your mind that you can’t quite see: it isn’t a clash between political ...

Were fleeting ghosts or if we should stay, I feel the weight of first love fray. I fear the feelings are bound to pass, Yet still I am, was, and stayed They seduce and they smile, they brood and they ...

The environment one lives in directly impacts one’s health — common sense tells us this. If someone knowingly harms another’s health, clear grounds for reparations exist. What happens, then, if our ...