The environment one lives in directly impacts one’s health — common sense tells us this. If someone knowingly harms another’s...

How do you say goodbye to a place with countless memories carved on its every corner. Those were the simple...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 1, 1976.] This coming week is the celebration of Cinco de Mayo and La...

What’s lost in the translation from writer to physician? My life as an undergraduate was very different — as a...

[Originally published in Synapse on April 29, 1997.] There is nothing like springtime and nowhere like San Francisco to experience...

Have you ever felt your heart beat align with the kick? Or the hits make your eardrums tickle, the special...

Synapse was pleased to welcome Dr. Jennifer Frazier as our guest for the 7th annual Synapse Science Speaker series on...

“The sound of electronic heartbeats echoed from room to room as high schoolers from all over the Bay, equipped with...

[Originally published in Synapse on April 16, 1981.] Last Saturday, International Committee Against Racism (InCAR) and Progressive Labor Party took...

What comes to mind when thinking about the word ‘hunger’? Maybe you pictured an empty fridge, a malnourished child, or...

This poem is an adaptation of my wedding vows As the time together has grown And it became clear that...

[Originally published in Synapse on April 12, 1974.] in Dr. Louis Jolyon West, Director of the Neuropsychiatry Institute at UCLA...

I was at the grocery store to get cake ingredients, and I saw that the egg aisle was near overflowing...

[Originally published in Synapse on April 1, 1993.] An April Fool’s tale. For countless years now, Girl Scout cookies have...

It’s an extraordinary afternoon And I made my sleepy tea at 4