A new study suggests that the emotional tone of words exchanged during messaging-based psychotherapy may provide a measurable window into...

The United States’ adolescent mental-health crisis is unfolding inside a health-insurance system that has changed dramatically over the past two...

A new perspective in Nature Reviews Psychology is drawing attention to a potentially overlooked driver of paediatric post-traumatic stress disorder:...

Anhedonia—the diminished ability to experience pleasure—has long challenged clinicians because it cuts across diagnostic boundaries. It can appear in depression,...

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

Big Data Could Transform Psychology—If Researchers Keep Theory in the Driver’s Seat Psychology is entering an era in which human...

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...