May 10th, 2013

Forgetfulness as we get older may be due to the changing way we perceive events as we age, according to ...
May 10th, 2013

People provided with a real-time readout of their brain activity can learn to control that activity and decrease their ...
May 9th, 2013

Children with autism can detect simple movements twice as fast as typically developing children, and this hypersensitivity to motion may provide insight into the workings behind the ...
May 7th, 2013

For many people who don't respond to standard antidepressant treatment, electric brain stimulation -- known as vagus nerve stimulation -- has been shown to effectively relieve severe symptoms of ...
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 ...