Psychology & Psychiatry

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...

Nightmares linked to trauma may be more than frightening stories generated during sleep. They could reflect the way specific memory...

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...

Alzheimer’s disease may be leaving a more precise anatomical signature in the brain than scientists once realized. A new study...

A new study suggests that deep brain stimulation may do more than control movement disorders: it could also help repair...

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

The brain may be constantly calculating a hidden ratio that helps determine whether neural circuits remain stable, flexible, and capable...