If you need help jogging your memory, you might try your hand at drawing. A recent study found that we remember items better when we draw them rather than write them down. In a study published in The ...

Drawing may help you cope with anxiety symptoms by grounding you and distracting you from intrusive thoughts. Anxiety, as an emotional response, is a survival mechanism designed to alert you, which ...

Conventional wisdom suggests memories of past experiences can help us navigate problems in the present. For example, if a friend told you they were having a disagreement with their partner, you might ...

Simple activities, such as drawing and coloring, may yield both mental health and cognitive benefits for veterans, according to my new study in collaboration with Jourdan Rodak and Michaela Rizzo. We ...

There are a lot of suggested mnemonics to help one memorize certain information, but one really stands out to be the best tool to remember something. Drawing pictures may help one remember better, ...

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I’ve lived much of my life with anxiety and depression, including the negative feelings – shame and self-doubt – that seduced me into believing the stigma around mental illness: that people knew I ...

AN is an eating disorder characterized by low weight, food restriction, fear of gaining weight, an overpowering desire to be thin and body-image disturbance. “Scientific drawing” using squares is a ...