Brain biomarkers could help identify those at risk of severe PTSD
A study has shed light on the neurocomputational contributions to the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in combat veterans....
Read moreA study has shed light on the neurocomputational contributions to the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in combat veterans....
Read moreUsing a molecular method likely to become widely adopted by the field, researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health...
Read moreNational Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers have discovered molecular mechanisms that may underlie a woman's susceptibility to disabling irritability, sadness,...
Read moreScientists have discovered 15 genome sites - the first ever - linked to depression in people of European ancestry. Many...
Read moreNew measurements may have lifted the veil on the vexingly elusive interactions through which lithium can moderate the manic highs...
Read moreResearchers have mapped 180 distinct areas in our brain's outer mantle, or cortex -- more than twice the number previously...
Read moreHow is the brain able to use past experiences to guide decision-making? A few years ago, researchers supported by the...
Read moreBoys are more likely than girls to receive a prescription for antipsychotic medication regardless of age, researchers have found. Approximately...
Read morePostpartum depression is a mood disorder that can affect women shortly before or soon after childbirth, but commonly begins within...
Read moreNeuroscientists have perfected a chemical-genetic remote control for brain circuitry and behavior. This evolving technology can now sequentially switch the...
Read moreNeuroscientists have discovered brain circuitry for encoding positive and negative learned associations in mice. After finding that two circuits showed...
Read moreThe AIDS virus can genetically evolve and independently replicate in patients' brains early in the illness process, researchers funded by...
Read moreHeather Frank, then a senior majoring in neuroscience at Colgate University, explains studies on neurogenesis that she worked on during...
Read moreMany patients with first-episode psychosis receive medications that do not comply with recommended guidelines for first-episode treatment, researchers have found....
Read moreU.S. Army soldiers hospitalized with a psychiatric disorder have a significantly elevated suicide risk in the year following discharge from...
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