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Since everyone occasionally experiences symptoms of depression such as feeling sad, unmotivated and disconnected, the distinction between normal negative emotion and... Read More »

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) found that a blood test to diagnose major depression could become a useful tool after a study showed success in... Read More »

Researchers have discovered a way to examine the processes of schizophrenia in cells from the nose. Neural stem cells can be used in the study of the mechanisms of... Read More »

According to a study in the University of Maryland, humans can physically react to the perceived intentions of another person. Participants of the study were split... Read More »

New research shows that the teenage rat brain anticipates rewards differently than the adult rat  brain. In a University of Pittsburgh study, rats were tested... Read More »

In 1998, Dr. Andrew Wakefield published a paper hypothesizing that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine caused a leak in the gut which sent toxic substances to... Read More »

Canada’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health has found that employees treated for depression are more likely to be highly productive. This study testing the... Read More »

The cellular mechanisms that govern the transition from alcohol use to alcohol dependency are exposed in a study conducted by Professor Marisa Roberto, a Scripps... Read More »

Oxytocin, sometimes called “the hormone of love,"  has been shown in several studies to play an important role in social lives, sexual reproduction... Read More »

From the horrific Tuskegee incident to the more recent autism scandal, the exposure of scientific fraud illuminates the need for full disclosure of data not only to... Read More »

New research into psychopathy has provided evidence for the physiological nature of this mental disorder that takes it further from the realm of psychology into the... Read More »

Waking up is hard to do; even harder and more jarring when an alarm clock is involved.  At the mercy of stress, illness, bad mattresses, lack of time, and alarm... Read More »

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Stimulants used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder do not increase the risk of heart attacks, strokes or sudden death, U.S... Read More »

  By Natasha Baker               TOKYO (Reuters) - Want to reduce stress and improve mental focus? A new app that... Read More »

  (Reuters) - Smokers who take Pfizer's pill Chantix to help them quit do not have a higher risk of being hospitalized for psychiatric events such as... Read More »

The movie 'Limitless' features the character Eddie Morra (played by Bradley Cooper) as an average author who gains genius intelligence after taking a pill. He ... Read More »

Undergraduates at research universities make up an overwhelmingly disproportionate number of participants in cognitive science experiments, such as psycholinguistic... Read More »

  Establishing a medically based, cause-and-effect link for autism sufferers has been challenging to say the least. The Autism Speaks advocacy group has ... Read More »