More than 80 percent of people around the world consider themselves to be religious or spiritual. But research on the neuroscience of...

I felt I could reach through the screen to get to another place. Lasers became entire fans of light sweeping around, and then it felt as...

Research over the last decade has shown that loneliness is an important determinant of health. It is associated with considerable...

A new study led by a University at Buffalo researcher has identified how specific communication among different brain regions, known as...

Humans are born with a part of the brain that is prewired to be receptive to seeing words and letters, setting the stage at birth for...

Anxiety, the most common family of mental illnesses, has been pushed to epic new heights by the COVID-19 pandemic. A report by an...

People who binge-drink show more extensive dysfunction across their brains than previously realised, a new study from the University of...

As any parent will tell you, no two children behave in exactly the same way. It is part of what makes each individual unique. So, why do...

A common consequence of chronically high alcohol consumption is a decline in cognitive function, which can even progress to full-blown...

In training and lectures on personality, I describe the five key traits of our temperament. One of these traits is Openness to...

The endogenous regulation of a specific gene is associated with a reduced risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder following a...

The human brain operates on many levels. When we consider things which are distant in time, space or intimacy the rational brain tends...

I was recently looking for some research on a separate project and came across this early pioneering study in language and emotional...

Psychiatrists led by Nikolaos Koutsouleris from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have used a computer-based approach to...

Artificial intelligence may soon play a critical role in choosing which depression therapy is best for patients. A national trial...

My first day back at work in 2020 was with a fantastic team of mental health housing workers. We had an extensive debate on the role of...

Recent advances in neuroscience are unlocking how the major personality traits are linked to neural systems. One personality trait,...

Do bad dreams serve a real purpose? To answer this question, researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and University Hospitals...

Impulsive shopping can be a costly vice for people who are eager to escape emotional pain, but researchers have now discovered a strategy...

The amygdala and the hippocampus -- structures in the brain that are involved in emotion, learning, and memory -- have been found to play...