May 19th, 2013

New research has shown that kava, a medicinal South Pacific plant, reduces the symptoms of anxiety and may be used as a successful alternative treatment ...
May 18th, 2013

A long-term study provides evidence that the genetic risk for schizophrenia is associated with lower IQ among people who do not develop this disorder.
Schizophrenia is a rare but ...
May 15th, 2013

A new study funded by the National Institutes of Health discovers a pregnant mothers' exposure to the flu may have extreme mental health ...
May 5th, 2013

Several new studies presented at the International Society for Autism Research annual conference back up the notion that environmental factors before birth may play an important role ...
May 4th, 2013

A new study reveals that practitioners of meditation experience changes in gene expression that are the exact opposite of what occurs during the "flight ...
April 29th, 2013

A new University of Melbourne study suggests that up to 10 per cent of the population is affected by specific ...
April 12th, 2013

Although modern pharmacology has developed formulas to aid people with mental illness, the method by which the drugs actually work is often ...
April 6th, 2013

As much as a decade before most schizophrenia patients begin showing obvious symptoms, brain scans may be able to detect signs of the disease, according ...
April 1st, 2013

Researchers studying fruit flies report identifying a key molecule that triggers the chemical processes of memory formation.
The finding, published in the journal Frontiers in Neural Circuits, ...
March 30th, 2013

Genetics may help reveal why some teens become addicted so quickly to smoking cigarettes, according to new research.
For the study, researchers analyzed ...