I want to share something deeply personal and professionally significant. For three years, I was embedded in a mental health department, collaborating with psychologists and psychiatrists to explore the impacts of digital media on our minds. What I discovered was both fascinating and alarming, prompting me to coin the term “digital sugars” to describe how…

As a physician and neuroscientist, I’ve been deeply intrigued by the rapid increase in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnoses in recent decades. Autism is a complex condition influenced by genetic, environmental, and biological factors, yet these factors have not changed significantly since the 1970s. Autism rates were 1 in 10,000 kids in the 1970s, but…