Psychology & Psychiatry

Suicide remains one of the most difficult outcomes in medicine to predict, and for decades clinicians have relied on judgment,...

Every time you glance at a word printed in the wrong color and force yourself to name the ink rather...

When a child with selective mutism freezes at a restaurant counter, it is often a parent who answers for them,...

One of the most widely prescribed treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder asks patients to do something that sounds almost unbearable:...

Japanese researchers have identified a new psychological construct that may explain why some older adults manage to feel—and stay—younger than...

Severe mental illness places an enormous burden on the estimated millions of people living with conditions such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective...

Mindfulness has become one of the most widely adopted tools in modern psychotherapy, yet almost everything science knows about its...

Every year, thousands of research papers in psychology, cognitive science, and natural language processing rely on some form of word...

Australias landmark social media ban for children under 16 has dominated headlines around the world, but a new study suggests...

Depression has long been treated as a single illness, but clinicians and researchers increasingly recognize that it wears many faces....