Psychology & Psychiatry

For decades, scientists have tried to explain why people read some words carefully, skim others, and occasionally stop to reread...

Electroencephalography, or EEG, has long promised a faster and more objective way to detect brain disorders. By recording the brain’s...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry is drawing attention to a question at the intersection of mental health, genetics...

A new study is drawing attention to the genetic blueprint behind the adolescent brain’s putamen, a structure buried deep within...

A new study has reported an association between the microorganisms living in the human gut and mouth and traits linked...

Autism spectrum disorder may not be a single, uniform condition after all. A new study published in Translational Psychiatry reports...

A new study has identified a neural pattern that may help explain why depression can make negative experiences feel overwhelmingly...

A new study is drawing attention to a potentially important link between the biological aging of the human body, brain...

Redistricting is often described as a contest between political parties, but its consequences are experienced one voter at a time....

A 12-week pilot study is putting the rapidly expanding “gut–brain axis” hypothesis to a direct test, examining whether a combination...