Inconsistent discipline is often blamed for aggressive behavior in children. But a study of Norwegian extended families and U.S. adoptive...

Animal studies have described “low road” pathways that rush sensory information from the thalamus to the amygdala. A brain imaging...

Not all creativity may draw on the same bodily state. In a study that tracked students’ hearts for five days,...

Young adults with weaker incoming connections to the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex, a small region that helps regulate emotion, tended...

People who scored higher on a creative drawing test tended to have stronger white matter in pathways tied to movement...

People who reported more worry and depressive symptoms also tended to report more negative dreams, according to a network analysis...

Women were more interested in hypothetical jobs, and expected to feel more at home in them, when told most employees...

Drinking problems may be a risk factor for reoffending that good social and cognitive skills don't offset, suggests a study...

In a small psilocybin trial for alcohol use disorder, people who stayed alcohol-free three months later tended to describe an...

Children who spent their earliest years in Romanian orphanages showed lasting differences in how their brain activity matured through adolescence,...

A single 20-minute session of alpha-frequency brain stimulation modestly reduced anxiety after a stressful task in healthy middle-aged and older...

New brain imaging research suggests resilience matters for children who have been abused. Among less resilient kids, abuse was tied...

Being smart, focused, or detail-oriented won’t stop you from missing unexpected objects hidden in plain sight. New research suggests that...

A groundbreaking brain imaging study in awake rats reveals that the psychedelic mescaline uniquely alters brain function. The drug reduces...

Using genetic data from thousands of twins, researchers have challenged a long-held psychological theory. They found little evidence that resting...