A study has shed light on the neurocomputational contributions to the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in combat veterans....

Using a molecular method likely to become widely adopted by the field, researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health...

National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers have discovered molecular mechanisms that may underlie a woman's susceptibility to disabling irritability, sadness,...

Scientists have discovered 15 genome sites - the first ever - linked to depression in people of European ancestry. Many...

New measurements may have lifted the veil on the vexingly elusive interactions through which lithium can moderate the manic highs...

Researchers have mapped 180 distinct areas in our brain's outer mantle, or cortex -- more than twice the number previously...

How is the brain able to use past experiences to guide decision-making? A few years ago, researchers supported by the...

Boys are more likely than girls to receive a prescription for antipsychotic medication regardless of age, researchers have found. Approximately...

Neuroscientists have perfected a chemical-genetic remote control for brain circuitry and behavior. This evolving technology can now sequentially switch the...

Neuroscientists have discovered brain circuitry for encoding positive and negative learned associations in mice. After finding that two circuits showed...

The AIDS virus can genetically evolve and independently replicate in patients' brains early in the illness process, researchers funded by...

Many patients with first-episode psychosis receive medications that do not comply with recommended guidelines for first-episode treatment, researchers have found....

U.S. Army soldiers hospitalized with a psychiatric disorder have a significantly elevated suicide risk in the year following discharge from...

A drug being studied as a fast-acting mood-lifter restored pleasure-seeking behavior independent of – and ahead of – its other...

Many patients with psychosis develop health risks associated with premature death early in the course of their mental illness, researchers...