“This is a paradigm shift,” says Donn Van Deren, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, who ...

Recent research indicates that bodily inflammation may disrupt the brain’s ability to process rewards and risks in American Indian adults who have experienced depression. The study found that higher ...

New research has suggested that the delusions and hallucinations that psychosis patients experience results from the malfunction of two important systems in the brain; one system acts as a filter that ...

Kenneth Kendler, one of the most influential and prolific psychiatric researchers and historians of our time, recently published two articles examining the role of the brain in psychiatric disorders: ...

For decades, neurology treated the brain like a black box, nudging it with drugs and hoping symptoms would ease. Now ...

A 2023 study found that shorter sleep duration causes reduced brain cortical thickness. Sleep disorders increase the risk of Alzheimer’s, stroke, and cognitive decline. Chronic sleep deprivation ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

Brain scans of thousands of people revealed that the human brain has five distinct eras, with turning points in the way it is ...