Many adults, regardless of their weight, resolve to avoid fatty foods and unhealthy desserts. But despite one's best intentions, when...

In a study published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, researchers from the RAND Corporation report...

Antibodies defend the body against bacterial, viral, and other invaders. But sometimes the body makes antibodies that attack healthy cells....

A recent study published in the February 2015 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent...

The thickness of cortical brain tissue progressively reduces as individuals develop psychosis, according to researchers of a large, multi-site study...

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a painless treatment strategy that uses weak electrical currents to deliver targeted stimulation to...

Persistent anxiety is one of the most common and distressing symptoms compromising mental health. Most of the research on the...

Panic disorder is a severe form of anxiety in which the affected individual feels an abrupt onset of fear, often...

Ghrelin is a hormone released by the stomach and it stimulates appetite and food intake. Alcohol is commonly viewed as...

The results of a four-year international study of 2060 cardiac arrest cases across 15 hospitals published and available now on...

A new study in Biological Psychiatry reports how magnetic stimulation treatment works On Star Trek, it is easy to take...

Patients with increased inflammation, including those receiving cytokines for medical treatment, have a greatly increased risk of depression. For example,...

When appointing a new leader, selectors base their choice on several factors and typically look for leaders with desirable characteristics...

Anyone who has seen pictures or models of the human brain is aware that the outside layer, or cortex, of...

Dyslexia, the most commonly diagnosed learning disability in the United States, is a neurological reading disability that occurs when the...