A leading University of Chicago researcher on empathy is launching a project to understand psychopathy by studying criminals in prisons....
Psychiatric disorders can be described on many levels, the most traditional of which are subjective descriptions of the experience of...
Brain scans of people under the influence of the psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, have given scientists the...
Researchers have found significant differences in brain development in infants as young as six months old who later develop autism,...
For children with autism, being born several weeks early or several weeks late tends to increase the severity of their...
New research provides the strongest evidence to date that psychopathy is linked to specific structural abnormalities in the brain. The...
Babies born to women with sensitivity to gluten appear to be at increased risk for certain psychiatric disorders later in...
Well-connected brains make you smarter in older age Brains that maintain healthy nerve connections as we age help keep us...
Antioxidant shows promise as treatment for certain features of autism, Stanford study finds A specific antioxidant supplement may be an...
APC scientists have shown that brain levels of serotonin, the ‘happy hormone’ are regulated by the amount of bacteria in...
Women infected with the Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) parasite, which is spread through contact with cat feces or eating undercooked meat or unwashed vegetables, are at increased risk of attempting suicide, according to a new study of more than 45,000 women in Denmark.
Scientists discovered a mechanism which stops the process of forgetting anxiety after a stress event. They showed that feelings of anxiety don’t subside if too little dynorphin is released into the brain. The results can help open up new paths in the treatment of trauma patients.
