Murdock Mind Body and Spirit series

The potential for a new psychiatry tool could change mental health care.

Americans are taking in five times as much information each day this year than they did in 1987.

The Murdock Mind, Body, Spirit Series features Dr. Dan Siegel, clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Siege

The body is built to live to a healthy 90 years old, but on average, Americans live to age 78. In some corners of the world, however, communities defy these statistics, leading unusually long and healthy lives. What makes them different?

Hawn detailed her revolutionary MindUP program, a social and emotional literacy curriculum that serves over 400,000 children in schools across the United States and internationally.

Mindlessness is a pervasive issue we all experience, according to social psychologist and Harvard University professor Ellen Langer. "Virtually all of us, almost all of the time, are not there," she said at the Aspen Institute in Aspen, CO. And, she said, this matters because "all of our suffering — personal, interpersonal, societal — is a function, directly or indirectly, of this mindlessness."