Studies show that people with these disorders often have unusual stress hormone patterns, like blunted or exaggerated ...

Rejection can feel physically painful. It also provides a lesson for your brain on whom to connect with and how.

In our book Demystifying Psychiatry, we define psychiatry as “the medical specialty that deals with disorders affecting the ...

A research team has discovered that a specific group of neurons in the amygdala, a brain region involved in emotion ...

Researchers have found that even after recovery, individuals who previously experienced depression may retain a heightened ...

Left-brain dominant people are more likely to be clinical and cold in their judgments and problem-solving. Language recognition is a function of the left hemisphere, too, and that makes languages ...

July 2, 2025 — A new brain scan tool shows how quickly your body and mind are aging. It can spot early signs of diseases like dementia, long before symptoms begin. The scan looks at hidden clues ...

This technology enabled the researchers to identify which parts of the brain showed patterns of activity that helped distinguish reality from imagination.

Our brains may work best when teetering on the edge of chaos. A new theory suggests that criticality a sweet spot between order and randomness is the secret to learning, memory, and adaptability. When ...

The diagnostic category of adult ADHD is becoming more inclusive. That’s not the same as it being overdiagnosed ...

A team of researchers from APL and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is developing next-generation brain organoid platforms to better understand the effects of mild blast-induced ...