A large scale study has found that people with autism show higher male trait scores in systemic thinking over empathetic thinking, above...

I am currently looking at psychological pain management techniques that can reduce the intensity of withdrawal symptoms in detoxification...

It is one of the most fundamental questions in neuroscience: How do humans think? Until recently, we seemed far from a conclusive answer....

A theory called the cultural brain hypothesis could explain extraordinary increases in brain size in humans and other animals over the...

Schizophrenia is an extremely variable psychiatric disorder which is diagnosed based on the presence of specific symptoms. Thomas Wolfers...

In lectures and training in mental health I stress how current psychiatric diagnosis is really a short-hand for the presenting signs and...

Working with trauma is hard. Being exposed to the pain and suffering others can have significant impact on us as a worker and as a human...

Without realizing it we make use of emotion regulation strategies all the time and they are crucial for everyday life. This is the...

People who empathize easily with others do not necessarily understand them well. To the contrary: Excessive empathy can even impair...

Children who struggle with weak cognitive control at an early age are at most risk for trouble in adulthood following their engagement in...

Do dopamine neurons have a role in causing cues in our environment to acquire value? And, if so, do different groups of dopamine neurons...

Psychiatric medications have focused heavily on neurotransmitters as the basis of mental health disorders.Researchers at Columbia...

In lectures I describe that there are two types of fear in humans, innate and learned. Whilst innate fears are located in the amygdala,...

Nothing cheers me up as much as a quirky research study on the humble fruit fly. We share approximately 65 per cent of our DNA with...

While we can "decide" to think about certain things, other information -- including activities we have learned like counting -- can enter...

Stressful situations affect the brain and body differently in people with schizophrenia compared to people without the mental illness or...

Researchers have recently begun to realize that biological sex plays a key role in disease risk. Sex plays a role in hypertension,...

Everyone's so busy these days that it is easy to think you need to schedule time to have fun. But be careful about how you do that, said...

Some brain networks become more densely connected during adolescence while others become less so, according to a new analysis published...

In teaching Motivational Interviewing I describe how we need to listen to the emotional emphasis of the client's statements rather than...