Psychology & Psychiatry

An episode of acute psychosis can appear to have ended long before the danger of relapse has truly passed. Even...

For older adults living with dementia, a medication prescribed to bring sleep may also influence the very outcomes clinicians are...

A new study suggests that successful coordination between people may begin not with copying another person’s movements, but with accurately...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry has placed a little-known cell-adhesion molecule at the center of one of neuroscience’s...

A subtle vibration delivered through the skin may help adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder preserve newly learned movements, according to a...

Fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability, has long challenged scientists searching for treatments that improve...

Depression is often described as a disorder of the brain, but a growing body of research is examining how closely...

Abortion laws are often discussed as questions of rights, ethics and public policy, but they also create natural experiments in...

A new study is taking aim at a deceptively difficult problem in psychological science: how to compare people’s momentary feelings...

Psychotic symptoms may leave measurable traces in the way people speak, and a new longitudinal study suggests that those traces...