EditorialHeather Rendulic, who had a stroke at age 23, disabling her left arm and hand and making tasks like tying shoes impossible, in Pittsburgh, Feb. 17, 2023. (Kristian Thacker/The New York Times)
EditorialRobyn Baldwin, who had a device implanted in her brain and reported no longer feeling irresistible urges to binge eat, in Citrus Heights, Calif., Nov. 6, 2022. (Andri Tambunan/The New York Times)
EditorialA clinical social worker demonstrates eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, or EMDR, by using a stimulation called a “butterfly hug” that includes tapping with alternate hands, in Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 15, 2022. (Sophie Park/The New York Times)
EditorialSarah, who asked not to be fully identified, uses a magnet to download her brain activity from a device that detects when she is becoming depressed and delivers bursts of electrical stimulation at her home on Sept. 21, 2021. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
EditorialBetty Dodson, the fine artist turned sex educator and evangelist for female self-stimulation, at her home in New York on Feb. 28, 2020. (Celeste Sloman/The New York Times)
EditorialAna Flores speaks with her mother, Nancy, by video after coming off ventilator support at the COVID medical Intensive Care Unit at Houston Methodist Hospital, July 16, 2020. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialAna Flores speaks with her mother, Nancy, by video after coming off ventilator support at the COVID medical Intensive Care Unit at Houston Methodist Hospital, July 16, 2020. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialBetty Dodson, the fine artist turned sex educator and evangelist for female self-stimulation, at her home in New York on Feb. 28, 2020. (Celeste Sloman/The New York Times)