Cutting down or putting down a nerdy or dorky high school peer is an activity that has gone on for generations. New research, however, ...

According to a report presented at the American Psychiatric Association meeting, borderline personality disorder may be underdiagnosed -- at least initially. In the presentation, David Meyerson of DePaul University in Chicago reported on an evaluation of lifetime diagnostic and treatment histories in ...

People with higher measures of cognitive ability are more likely to make good choices in several different types of economic decisions. A University of Minnesota study, set to be published online in the Proceedings of ...

A receptor for glutamate, the most prominent neurotransmitter in the brain, plays a key role in the process of "unlearning." Writing in the current issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, scientists at ...

Less than an hour of daily exercise reduces depressive symptoms and improves self-esteem in overweight children. The new study from the Medical College of Georgia included 207 overweight, typically sedentary children ages 7-11 randomly ...

The diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome is now acknowledged to occur in adults, extending beyond traditional boundaries of children and adolescents. Asperger Syndrome (or Asperger's Disorder) is a neurobiological disorder named for a ...

Emerging evidence suggests migraine headaches can precede the onset of mental disorders. "Together, migraine and mental disorders cause more impairment than alone," said lead study author Gregory Ratcliffe. "Patients who have one condition ...

Researchers have hypothesized that people with lower IQs may have a higher risk of adult mental disorders, but few studies have looked at the relationship between low childhood IQ and psychiatric disorders ...

For individuals with social anxiety, the deck often seems to be stacked in the wrong direction. A new study claims that socially anxious people must improve their performance to break the cycle of social ...

Among individuals living with an anxiety disorder, people often experience physical symptoms such as palpitations, sweating, irregular breathing, shaking of the hands and muscular tension. According to a new study, the perceived magnitude of ...