I think it is great that more experts have offered to get involved in the LeRoy case, namely the NIH. As you look into all of the cases of mass hysteria over the years, the diagnosis seems all of the more plausible. Consider that: 520 teen girls in 2007 at a religious boarding-school…

In a 2002 study, evolutionary psychologists Gordon Gallup, Rebecca Burch and Steve Platek at the State University of New York (SUNY) studied the impact of semen on women's levels of depression. Their research was spurred by the observation that lesbians do not synchronize menstrual cycles (known as the McClintock effect)…

Number-based phobias run the gamut. Some people are afraid of very large numbers, others of extensive computations. But phobias of individual numbers are surprisingly common. Most of us are familiar with the numbers 13 and 666, but the number 8 is less widely known in the United States. Find out…