My first book will come out in April 2021! What, exactly, is psychiatry? How do psychiatrists diagnose a patient’s mental disorders? The mental status exam…
Author: Daniel
I was born in Dallas and spent my childhood scampering through the countrysides of central and eastern Texas, with brief escapades in Maryland and Utah.
I began medical school in San Antonio, where I met my wife and future psych co-resident Kristin Budde. After my PhD, we moved together to New Haven, where I finished med school.
I enjoy writing about neuroscience as a way to think through some of the problems that come up in clinic. I spend a great chunk of my time thinking about and researching how to develop useful biomarkers of brain disease.
When I'm not at the hospital or working on research stuff, I'll be fixing up my 1920s New England house.
Published online at Scientific American on July 15, 2019. It’s four o’clock on a roasting Wednesday last July. I am a resident physician at Yale…
Published May 8, 2019 on Scientific American. It’s 3 P.M. on a Saturday in March, and I’m working at Silver Hill Hospital. As the on-duty…
It’s 7:30 A.M. on a frosty Wednesday in December. I’m waiting impatiently in the lobby of the Anlyan Center, a large research building at Yale…
Published at Scientific American on October 11, 2018. Lisa Barlow, whose name I have changed to protect her privacy, is at her kitchen table in…
Published online at Scientific American on August 13, 2018. At the beginning graduate school, I decided I wanted to study how epileptic seizures damage the…
Published on scientificamerican.com on May 15, 2018. We use the term “normal” so casually and so often that it seems utterly…normal. But in a compelling Trends…
When you go free diving, physical strength is not enough
Published online at Scientific American on March 19, 2018. It was midday when an ambulance brought Rose to the Emergency Department. The triage nurses, with…
Published online at scientificamerican.com on February 20, 2018. Think about your friends—the people you spend a lot of time with, see movies with, those people…
