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I Shared My OCD Struggles with 11,000 Employees—Their Responses Showed Me the Importance of Vulnerability in Leadership

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The medications I was on and the behavioral therapies I had been taught were no longer working. We are all books, and we each have many chapters. It’s not until you open the book and read those chapters that you understand why someone thinks or behaves as they do. I am a book, and I have an OCD chapter. It is better now.

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Life Is Not a Movie

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While other newspaper columnists from his generation might have been crotchety and bemused about tweets and video streaming, Ebert’s medical realities propelled him to the head of the class, affording him newfangled awards like Webbys’ “ Person of the Year ” and the No. This article was published in September 2011 and has been updated.

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From the Archives: The Power of the Mind Over the Body

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The articles leave nothing for me to do but to be at weight, and I will continue to keep this in mind.” Be ye transformed by the renewing power of your mind,” [Apostle Paul wrote in the Book of Romans]. “’Tis Even the regular medical schools are taking up the subject of mental medicine in their lecture courses.

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Scientist and Engineer Rosalind Picard Is Transforming Digital Health with Wearable AI

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Professor Rosalind Picard founds Empatica, Embrace and Affectiva Six years later, Picard—MIT professor and TED Talk speaker —wrote a highly influential book about, and subsequently developed, affective computing: an entire field of study dedicated to systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process and simulate human emotions.

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Top 10 Most Innovative Companies to Watch in 2024

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A 2022 Glossy article notes a reported annual revenue of $100 million and that the company is in a “prime spot” for potential acquisition or a public offering. Direct-to-consumer telehealth company Hims & Hers offers prescriptions from hair-loss medication to birth control pills to antidepressants—in all 50 states.

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3 Steps to Unveil Your Full Human Power Through ‘Unfocus’

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Burning the midnight oil at medical school in my second year, spending inordinate amounts of time on clinical units at the beginning of my psychiatry residency and excluding one of my favorite hobbies—music—from what seemed like an already too-diverse life when I was one of the pioneers in the field of neurocoaching.

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Nick Santonastasso: Staying Adaptive in a Handicap World

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Doctors gave me a 30% chance to live because I was the 12th baby in medical history to have Hanhart syndrome. In 2018, my mom wrote a book, Born to Break the Boundaries: How We Raised an Adaptive Child in a Handicap World. This article originally appeared in the November/December 2022 Issue of SUCCESS magazine. I was lucky.

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