Temma Ehrenfeld
I'm a writer and ghost-writer.
An award-winning journalist who covers psychology, health and personal finance. "I would hire her anytime for anything.” Jane Bryant Quinn, Newsweek
PROJECTS
The Wall Street Journal
How Trump Can Help Millions Hear
Op-ed asking for regulation that lower the prices of hearing aids
Healthline
What Science Says About Video Games and ADHD
As video games grow in popularity, more parents are raising concerns about their impact on kids’ attention spans. Here’s what the latest research shows.
leapsmag.com
One Day, There Might Be a Drug for a Broken Heart
If a new drug made rejections less painful, one expert argues, it could relieve or even prevent major depression.
LA Review of Books
The Repackaging of Stoicism in the 21st Century
HAVE YOU NOTICED a flurry of blogs, books, and conferences touting Stoicism? Much of its wisdom you’ve read or heard in other cultural wrappers, especially cognitive behavioral psychology. And much of it is unfamiliar and astonishingly useful. It has given me moments of freedom from pernicious modern ideas on the biggest of questions: how to love, how to bear loneliness and anxiety, and how to think about death..
Healthline
Depression: The Growing American Mental Health Storm
It’s hard to miss, with rising rates of suicide and depression: American mental health seems to be in a downturn.
Young people — from teens to college students — are doing the worst, along with working-class people in mid-life.
Newsweek
The Body Electric
Electrodes work for a range of ailments, from heart trouble and epilepsy to chronic pain and depression.
youbeauty
Are You a Gold Digger?
How money enters into our relationship choices. It's not always so clear.
Healthline
I Don’t Have Celiac Disease and I Still Avoid Gluten – Here’s Why
Even for those who don’t have celiac disease, eating gluten can come with a range of side effects.
The Weekly Standard
Hogs in Whole
Ask which domesticated animal is most like humans, and the answer comes quickly: “Dogs!” Like us, dogs live in hierarchical packs, thrive on affection, and are smarter than the average cow, sheep, or goat. Yet all this is also true of the pig.
LA Review of Books
Ruffled Feathers; or, Fowl Play at the Tring Estate
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THE FEATHER THIEF is an American, Edwin Rist, who, at 20, broke into the Natural History Museum collection in the British town of Tring and stole a trove of Birds of Paradise and other irreplaceable bird skins.