Sad news today as it was announced that Aaron Beck, the father of Cognitive Therapy has died at the age of 100. It would be impossible...

A recent qualitative study has identified six strategies that recovering alcoholics use to negotiate social situations and remain sober,...

Structural differences in the area of the brain responsible for decision making could explain why two siblings living in the same family...

One third of children with a microdeletion of chromosome 22 will later develop a psychotic illness such as schizophrenia. But how do we...

A team of researchers from the University of Missouri have discovered that people tend to give more praise to someone for their good...

For some teenagers, the new school year means reuniting with their friends. For others, it means an increase in anxiety and in the...

Rethinking what causes pain and how great of a threat it is can provide chronic pain patients with lasting relief and alter brain...

The new International Classification of Diseases (ICD Edition 11) is soon due for release in January 2022. Produced by the World Health...

An interesting new (and free) tool kit to support young people who are drinking has just been realised by Humankind. Based on the AUDIT,...

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...

Legend has it that Marie Antoinette's hair turned gray overnight just before her beheading in 1791. Though the legend is inaccurate --...

The link between the different hierarchies of personality, sleep patterns and even genetics has been discovered by researchers from the...

What information is retained in a memory over time, and which parts get lost? These questions have led to many scientific theories over...

A facial expression or the sound of a voice can say a lot about a person's emotional state; and how much they reveal depends on the...

Waking up just one hour earlier could reduce a person's risk of major depression by 23%, suggests a sweeping new genetic study published...

Narcissism is driven by insecurity, and not an inflated sense of self, finds a new study by a team of psychology researchers. Its...

It's a first: approximately 100 scientists in 42 countries joined forces to learn about the incidence of parental burnout. They found...

The unpredictable nature of life during the coronavirus pandemic is particularly challenging for many people. Not everyone can cope...

Positive psychological effects associated with taking small doses of psychedelic drugs are likely the result of users' expectations,...