Social Science

Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) has long been framed as a brain-state problem, but new findings suggest the body’s pain circuitry may...

A new study published in Nature Mental Health highlights “unpredictability” in childhood as a distinct form of adversity that can...

Soon after the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints moved its headquarters from Nauvoo, Illinois toward what became the...

A new study from UCLA psychologists suggests that the key factor linking cellphones to lower academic performance in elementary school...

Interoception—the brain’s ability to sense internal bodily signals like heartbeat and breathing—is often portrayed as a key “brain–body bridge” to...

A new theory study in The Annals of Family Medicine reframes the everyday friction between social care and clinical medicine...

In today’s polarized political climate, people may judge moderates as untrustworthy whenever opposing groups appear threatening, according to new research...

A Dartmouth team has released KinyaProp, the first digital tool designed to identify and classify online propaganda in Kinyarwanda, Rwanda’s...

A new study published in Nature Mental Health argues that how we assess mental health risk depends critically on one...

Inequality rarely stays static. Instead, it often amplifies itself through a feedback loop: when disparities become normalized, political demand for...