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...

Depression in later life is often treated as a disorder of mood alone, yet a new study of Chinese older...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry is drawing attention to one of the most intriguing questions in fear research:...

A new study published in Nature Communications is challenging one of psychiatry’s most persistent assumptions: that major mental disorders can...

Failure is often treated as the essential teacher of human performance. A missed target, an incorrect decision, or an unsuccessful...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified a possible biological link between ketamine, psychedelic compounds...

Depression treatment is often described as a process of finding the right drug at the right dose, but in hospital...