Speech may be doing more than carrying words during a manic episode: it may be revealing how rapidly the brain...

Psychology is entering an era in which human behavior can be examined at a scale once considered impossible. Digital records,...

A child’s first experience with social media may be linked to how their academic performance develops for years afterward, according...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is often portrayed through visible rituals—repeated handwashing, checking, or cleaning—but the disorder is driven by something less obvious:...

Language comprehension is not a passive act of receiving words. As the brain hears or reads a sentence, it continuously...

A large longitudinal study is challenging one of the most persistent assumptions in modern parenting: that more screen time inevitably...

Compulsive behavior may be far more ordinary, persistent and diagnostically widespread than traditional psychiatric categories suggest, according to a new...

Depression in young people may soon be treated with greater precision, as researchers in Western Australia investigate whether genetic information...

A new study is drawing attention to one of the brain’s most closely watched structures in the search for early...

Depression in adolescence may be shaped by biological signals traveling between the gut and the brain, according to a new...