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

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

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

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

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, Neur...

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

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...

People with psychopathic traits are predisposed toward antisocial behavior that can result in "unsuccessful" outcomes such as incarcerati...

Mindfulness can be seen as a panacea for all things these these days. However, it needs to be subjected to more rigorous study in order ...

The expression of many genes that have previously been associated with autism is abnormal also in violent psychopathy, a new study shows....

In lectures I often stress the importance of naming emotions in the client in the here and now. My mantra is always that a named emotion...

I am very interested in how sacred values operate within the brain. In general terms, we are quite good on the mechanics of the brain an...

Experiences such as poverty, residential instability, or parental divorce or substance abuse, also can lead to changes in a child's brain...

In a first of its kind review, published in World Psychiatry -- the world's leading psychiatric research journal, the researchers investi...

Growing evidence shows that the brain's dopamine system, which drives motivation, is directly affected by chronic, low-grade inflammation...

Teenage girls with problematic social behavior display reduced brain activity and weaker connectivity between the brain regions implicate...

Adolescence is associated with the maturation of cognitive functions, such as working memory, decision-making, and impulsivity control. T...

For those who have done mental health or dual diagnosis training with me will know, I show some very simple ways to lift depression. Thi...