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2 shootings, 2 states, minutes apart − a trauma psychiatrist explains how exposure to shootings changes all of us

As social media platforms make it easier for millions of people near and far to witness public violence, the harmful effects have far greater reach.

15.09.2025 2

The Conversation

Arash Javanbakht

Eat, Pray, Leave: How Travel Healed Me

Getty Images|iStockphoto Sometimes running away from life’s problems is the best way to solve them. It may sound counterintuitive, but let me...

04.01.2025 5

U.S.News

Arash Javanbakht

A nation exhausted: The neuroscience of why Americans are tuning out politics

“I am definitely not following the news anymore,” one patient told me when I asked about her political news consumption in the weeks before the...

19.12.2024 10

The Conversation

Arash Javanbakht

Dealing with election anxiety? A psychiatrist explains how to channel your fears and break out of tribal thinking

Instead of excitement about the upcoming election, many of my patients and friends – regardless of political affiliation – report they’re...

09.08.2024 30

The Conversation

Arash Javanbakht