Psychology & Psychiatry

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...

Big Data Could Transform Psychology—If Researchers Keep Theory in the Driver’s Seat Psychology is entering an era in which human...

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...