Psychology & Psychiatry

Autism research has long wrestled with a deceptively simple question: when genetic differences are linked to brain development and behavior,...

For decades, confidence has been treated as a mental afterglow of decision-making: the stronger the evidence seems, the more certain...

A new study in Nature Human Behaviour is putting a deceptively simple question under the microscope: how often do social-science...

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is often reduced to a story about distractibility and excess energy. In reality, the condition can...

A new study is drawing attention to a potentially important biological link between brain development, cholesterol-derived signaling molecules and autism-related...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry examines how vulnerability to neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases may travel through families, appear...

Schizophrenia has long challenged scientists because its most disabling symptoms do not arise from a single damaged brain region. Instead,...

A new process model is putting a sharper focus on one of the most persistent mysteries in mental health: why...

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...