A multidisciplinary team of Johns Hopkins researchers has developed two new strategies to treat depression in young people using the...

Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, are significantly more likely to have an eating disorder -- a loss...

Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered that neurons are risk takers: They use minor "DNA surgeries" to toggle their activity levels...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have transformed skin cells from patients with Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),...

Using a novel approach that homes in on rare families severely affected by autism, a Johns Hopkins-led team of researchers...

A history of psychedelic drug use is associated with less psychological distress and fewer suicidal thoughts, planning and attempts, according...

What is happening in the brain of an actor reciting Hamlet’s “to be or not to be” soliloquy or of...

A team of Johns Hopkins specialists, using a battery of imaging and cognitive tests, has gathered evidence of accumulated brain...

A Roman philosopher was the first to note the relationship between a sound mind and a sound body. Now the...

The brains of some Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans who survived blasts from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and died later...

Whether we're paying attention to something we see can be discerned by monitoring the firings of specific groups of brain...

While many different combinations of genetic traits can cause autism, brains affected by autism share a pattern of ramped-up immune...

Results of a small clinical trial suggest that a chemical derived from broccoli sprouts — and best known for claims...

When young mice with the rodent equivalent of a rare autism spectrum disorder (ASD), called Rett syndrome, were fed a...

The timing of a toddler's first steps is an important developmental milestone, but a slight delay in walking is typically...