News/Media

Articles

2025, May 15

• Spectrum News 1, “Gut-Brain Link May Affect Behavior in Children with Autism.” https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/southern-california/news/2025/05/15/gut-brain-link-autism?cid=id-app15_m-share_s-web_cmp-app_launch_august2020_c-producer_posts_po-organic

2025, April 29

• Yahoo Life, “USC Study Confirms Your Autistic Child’s Gut Heath Affects Their Brain.” https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/usc-study-confirms-autistic-childs-134500814.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uYXR1cmUuYWx0bWV0cmljLmNvbS9kZXRhaWxzLzE3NjEwODQ3NS9uZXdz&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALfd-3c5qAaJx0KxLudnyiYHoW_uUdU16DzZmto9Arvby2Y9wq7S8IBXCIhQ9lqEAlLpIFCA7b8X0qk6XNPNfFZZ0J36mg4QBlI73CxOnGbbYYVIBZ4iJ1yEZJckcQoqfXsZzA5-pUosoP9D1lwAv7RUFOcx_1aiUvVqLW3WvHsz&guccounter=2

2025, April 17

• Verywell Health, “Gut Imbalances Might Play a Role in Autism, Study Finds.” https://www.verywellhealth.com/gut-brain-connection-in-autism-study-11716438

2025, April 16

• ABC 4 News, “RFK JR. to Address Autism Rise and Causes in Latest CDC report.” https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/health-and-human-services-secretary-rfk-robert-f-kennedy-jr-to-address-autism-rise-and-causes-in-latest-cdc-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-report-developmental-disabilities-testing-research#

2025, April 15

• Psychology Today, “Autism, Inflammation, and the Gut-Brain Axis.” https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mood-by-microbe/202504/autism-inflammation-and-the-gut-brain-axis 

2025, April 14

• USC Today, “USC Scientists Find a Gut-Brain Link That May Affect Behavior in Children with Autism.” https://today.usc.edu/usc-scientists-find-a-gut-brain-link-that-may-affect-behavior-in-children-with-autism/

2022, January 24 

• Medical Express, “Study is First to Show Figurative Language Comprehension Relies on Motor Regions.” https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-01-figurative-language-comprehension-brain-motor.html

2022, January 18      

• Ajoure, “Empathie Lernen und Muhelos Besser Kommunizieren” https://www.ajoure.de/lifestyle/erfolg-motivation/empathie-lernen-und-muehelos-besser-kommunizieren/

2021, December 20   

• Medical Express, “Research that Potentially Links Autism and Brain-gut microbiome” https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-12-potentially-links-autism-brain-gut-microbiome.html

2021, November 14

• Fast Company, “Brain Science has a Simple Approach Leaders can use to Energize Teams during the Great Resignation” https://www.fastcompany.com/90695686/brain-science-has-a-simple-approach-leaders-can-use-to-energize-teams-during-the-great-resignation

2021, February 12    

• Scienceline, “Beyond the Mask: Communicating Emotions in the Era of COVID-19” https://scienceline.org/2021/02/beyond-the-mask-communicating-emotions-in-the-era-of-covid-19/

2018, December 6     

• Stereogum, “The 10 Best Metal Albums of 2018” https://www.stereogum.com/2024835/the-10-best-metal-albums-of-2018/lists/

2016, April 3 

• ArsTechnica, “The Science behind the Insane Popularity of “React” Videos on YouTube” https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/04/the-science-behind-the-insane-popularity-of-react-videos-on-youtube/

2015, June 3  

• Newsweek, “Using Pictionary to Study Creativity and the Brain” https://www.newsweek.com/using-pictionary-study-creativity-and-brain-338323

2015, May 28

• Wired, “Looking for Creativity in the Brain will take more Creativity” https://www.wired.com/2015/05/looking-creativity-brains-will-take-creativity/

2014, September 1   

• The Chronicle Review, “Your Brain on Metaphors” https://www.chronicle.com/article/your-brain-on-metaphors/

2013, October 29      

• CNN, “Does Power Make You Mean?” http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/24/business/does-power-make-you-mean/

2013, September 23 

• Time Magazine, “How to Live Long” http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2151786,00.html

2013, Oct 16  

• USA News “Empathy? Surprising Study Shows We Process the Pain of Villans More than the Pain of People We Like” http://dailynewsen.com/2013/10/16/empathy-surprising-study-shows-that-brains-process-the-pain-of-villains-more-than-the-pain-of-people-we-like.html

2013, Oct 18  

• Algemeiner “Research Shows Physical Reaction in Jews Watching Anti-Semites in Pain” http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/10/18/research-shows-physical-reaction-by-jews-to-anti-semites-in-pain/

2013, April 2             

• National Public Radio: The Academic Minute: “The Brain and Distasteful People,” http://wamc.org/post/dr-lisa-aziz-zadeh-university-southern-california-brain-and-distasteful-people.

2013, June 21            

• Therapy Toronto: “Study Suggests Possible Way to Exercise Stroke Patient’s Brain,” http://therapytoronto.ca/news/2013/06/study-suggests-possible-way-to-exercise-stroke-patients-brains/

2013, April 2             

• Scientific American Mind: “Mirror Neurons Can Reflect Hatred,” http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mirror-neurons-can-relfect-hatred

2013, January 24      

• PsychCentral: “Viewing Different Bodies Helps Brain Understand Disabilities,” http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/01/24/viewing-different-bodies-helps-brain-understand-disabilities/50738.html

2012, October 5        

• Medical Daily: “Liking Someone Affects How You Process the Way They Move,” http://www.medicaldaily.com/liking-someone-affects-how-your-brain-processes-way-they-move-242947

2012, October 12      

• NY Daily News: “Being around People You Don’t Like May Impact Your Brain,” http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/people-don-impact-brain-article-1.1181876

2012, March 6          

• PsychCentral: “Imaging Finds Creativity Uses Both Right and Left Brain,” http://psychcentral.com/news/2012/03/06/imaging-finds-visual-creativity-uses-both-right-left-brain/35612.html

2012, October 6        

• Science Daily: “Whether We Like Someone Affects How Our Brain Processes Movement,” http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121006170905.html

2012, March 6                      

• Huffington Post: “Left Brain Hemisphere Also Plays Big Part in Creative Thinking, Study Shows,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/07/creativity-left-right-brain-hemisphere_n_1322240.html

2012, April 12                       

• Time Magazine: “Shhh! Genius at Work,” http://healthland.time.com/2012/04/12/shhh-genius-at-work/

2011, July 19             

• US News and World Report: “Researchers Explore the Source of Empathy in the Brain” http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2011/07/19/researchers-explore-the-source-of-empathy-in-the-brain

2011, July 18             

• PsychCentral: “Two Brain Regions Convey Empathy,” http://psychcentral.com/news/2011/07/18/two-brain-regions-convey-empathy/27821.html

2011, July 15             

• Science News: “Mirror System Gets an Assist,” https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mirror-system-gets-assist

2010, August 10        

• Scientific American Mind: “Sing-Song Speakers Score Highly on Measures of Empathy,” http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=attuned-to-feelings

2010, January 19      

• Los Angeles Times Blogs: “Linguistically Musical? You Are Probably Nicer Too” http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2010/01/linguistically-musical-youre-probably-nicer-too.html

2010, January 28      

• E! Science News: “Musical Speech Equals Empathy in the Heart?,” http://esciencenews.com/sources/science.daily/2010/01/28/music.speech.equals.empathy.heart.

2009, February 21    

• PsychCentral: “Brain’s Action Center is all Talk,” http://psychcentral.com/news/archives/2006-09/uosc-bac091506.html

2008, Fall                  

• Proto Magazine, Massachusetts General Hospital Dispatches from the Frontiers of Medicine / Time Inc.: “Mirror, Mirror,” http://protomag.com/assets/mirror-mirror?page=1

2008,  January                      

• La Nacion, Argentinean Newspaper

2007, January 9        

• Discover Magazine: “Top 100 Science Stories of 2006,” http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jan/cover#.UmVXwRAlhjc

2007, January 19      

• Time Magazine: “The Gift of Mimicry,” http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1580423,00.html

2007,  Fall                 

• Korean National Television: “Horror Movies on Our Mind”

2006, September 19 

• Science: “Do As I Say,” http://news.sciencemag.org/2006/09/do-i-say

2006, September 20 

• Seed Magazine: “Mirror Neurons Also Respond to Language and Sound” http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/mirror_neurons_also_respond_to_language_and_sound/

2006, September 25 

• Washington Post: “How Brain’s ‘Mirrors’ Aid in Our Social Understanding,” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/24/AR2006092400718.html

Podcasts

2023

• The neuroscience of taking empathic action with Dr. Lisa Aziz-Zadeh. In Purposeful Empathy. Nowak, A. (Host). (2023, August 17). https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-neuroscience-of-taking-empathic-action-ft-dr/id1528606164?i=1000624831827

2018

•  Lisa Aziz-Zadeh on embodied cognition, mirror neurons and empathy (No. 23) [Audio podcast episode]. In Mindscape. Wondery. Carroll, S. (Host). (2018, November 19). https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/11/19/episode-23-lisa-aziz-zadeh-on-embodied-cognition-mirror-neurons-and-empathy/