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

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...

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...

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...

Researchers have long suspected that major mental disorders are genetically-rooted diseases of synapses – the connections between neurons. Now, investigators...

Most of the genetic risk for autism comes from versions of genes that are common in the population rather than...

Scientists have bioengineered, in neurons cultured from rats, an enhancement to a cutting edge technology that provides instant control over...

Scientists have traced vulnerability to depression-like behaviors in mice to out-of-balance electrical activity inside neurons of the brain's reward circuit...