Psychology & Psychiatry

Scientists have identified a hidden role for fluctuations in arousal: rather than being random noise or simple reactions to exciting...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry is placing two of psychiatry’s most powerful—and very different—treatments under the same molecular...

A new research paper is drawing attention to a problem that could quietly reshape the credibility of online science: how...

A new study is putting one of the brain’s most closely watched regions at the center of the search for...

As AI chatbots become more emotionally expressive, users are increasingly turning to them not only for information or entertainment, but...

A new framework proposed by researchers E.M. van Fenema and G.E. Jacobs suggests that a wide range of psychiatric symptoms...

A new study suggests that the emotional tone of words exchanged during messaging-based psychotherapy may provide a measurable window into...

A new perspective in Nature Reviews Psychology is drawing attention to a potentially overlooked driver of paediatric post-traumatic stress disorder:...

Anhedonia—the diminished ability to experience pleasure—has long challenged clinicians because it cuts across diagnostic boundaries. It can appear in depression,...

Speech may be doing more than carrying words during a manic episode: it may be revealing how rapidly the brain...