Patrick J. Kennedy in conversation with Jonathan Sherin, MD, PhD, former Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health.

When Patrick Kennedy’s uncle, President John F. Kennedy, published his classic book Profiles in Courage, he hoped to inspire “political courage” by telling the stories of brave U.S. senators who changed America. In Profiles in Mental Health Courage, former Congressman Patrick Kennedy adapts President Kennedy’s theme to inspire the “mental health courage” it takes for those living with mental illness to seek and undergo treatment.

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Marc Milstein, PhD, author of The Age-Proof Brain in conversation with Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS, Professor In-Residence in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA and a geriatric integrative psychiatrist.

When it comes to keeping your brain in tip-top shape, you aren't limited to crossword puzzles, brain games, and Sudoku. The keys to keeping your mind sharp are already in your hands: eleven simple but powerful lifestyle factors often have a greater impact on our health than our genetics. In The Age-Proof Brain, scientist and popular speaker, Dr. Marc Milstein shares new, breakthrough science-support strategies to:

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We are honored to bring together two nationally known leaders in the field of mental health for a  fascinating discussion about their two new best-selling books: Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH, author of  Project Unlonely:  Healing our Crisis of Disconnection, and Thomas Insel, MD, author of HEALING, Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health. Loneliness has become a daily source of profound anguish for millions of people worldwide, causing the United States Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy to advise that it is the public health crisis of our time.

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Anyone on the front lines of caring for girls today knows that our daughters, students, and the girl next door are more anxious and more prone to depression and self-harming than ever before. The question that no one has yet been able to credibly answer is Why?

Now we have answers. As award-winning science journalist and writer, Donna Jackson Nakazawa deftly explains in her recent book, Girls on the Brink, new findings reveal that today’s growing girl crisis is a biologically rooted phenomenon: the unchecked bloom of social media and cultural misogyny that mixes badly with puberty, the onset of which is happening earlier. When this toxic clash occurs during the critical neurodevelopmental window of adolescence, it can alter the female stress-immune response in ways that derail healthy emotional development.

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Sara Manning Peskin, MD, MS in conversation with Jennifer Kruse, MD

A Molecule Away from Madness – Tales of the Hijacked Brain is an unputdownable journey into the deepest mysteries of our brains that are the most complex machines known to humankind. But they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. In A Molecule Away from Madness, Dr. Sara Manning Peskin shares gripping accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their wake.

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