Adult spinal deformity (ASD) doesn’t just bend spines — it bends lives. Dinners get skipped. Family gatherings become endurance events. Friends stop calling (or worse, patients stop answering).

Time and time again, I hear the term the social brain when people talk about social cognition. It’s a catchy phrase that captures how important social behavior is to the brains of social species, like ...

Sociologist Talcott Parsons observed that social institutions have two functions: the written “manifest” function and the unwritten “latent” function. In many cases, the latent function is as ...