May 3rd, 2013

Researchers say playing a video game can help to prevent the natural loss of cognitive abilities that begin in ...
May 2nd, 2013

An international team of researchers has determined that child abuse leaves a distinct change in biological pathways.
Such discoveries have the ...
April 30th, 2013

Despite the devastating effects of schizophrenia, it is often difficult to diagnose early.
As with all mental disorders and many other diseases, mental health professionals rely on a ...
April 30th, 2013

In a new study, Jamie Feusner, M.D., and colleagues report that individuals with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) have, in essence, global "bad wiring" in their brains ...
April 29th, 2013

A new University of Melbourne study suggests that up to 10 per cent of the population is affected by specific ...
April 27th, 2013

Patients with schizophrenia have a hard time recognizing angry facial expressions, often mistaking them for fear, according to a new ...
April 27th, 2013

Prisoners who are psychopaths lack the basic neurophysiological "hard-wiring" that enables them to care about other people, according to a new study.
"A ...
April 26th, 2013

New research suggests making a fist with your hand is not necessarily a sign of exasperation, rather a memory recall method.
Investigators also discovered a ...
April 26th, 2013

The prevailing opinion and conventional wisdom has been to guard adolescents from sexually explicit material, because the content may influence a teens’ ...
April 25th, 2013

Moms and dads can take heart; new research suggest adolescence angst is merely a normal biological program of reorientation.
As parents know, adolescence is often a ...