Karen Hoffmann – Science and Health Writing


Lise Vesterlund: Redefining a “Woman’s Place”
December 3, 2007, 3:35 pm
Filed under: Culture, Economics, Pitt, Profiles, Psychology

Lise Vesterlund

Women are missing from boardrooms and executive positions worldwide. School of Arts and Sciences Mellon Associate Professor of Economics Lise Vesterlund is working to discover why—and what we might be able to do about it. More >



Hush-A-Bye, Mama
January 1, 2007, 4:20 pm
Filed under: Biology, Health, Psychology, UPMC Health Journal, Women's health

After her first son was born, Magdalena Sanchez-Dahl experienced pain unlike any she had felt before – a terrible ache that went down to her bones. Just getting out of bed took her a full hour. More > (DOC)



Victims of Capgras syndrome often cannot recognize their own image
September 23, 2003, 4:13 pm
Filed under: Biology, Health, Neuroscience, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Psychology

In his room at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Joseph looked in the mirror. There, he saw a man he had never seen before. He pinched himself. The man in the mirror pinched himself. But it still wasn’t Joseph. More >