Psychology & Psychiatry

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...

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...