Postpartum depression--a household term since actress Brooke Shields went public in 2005 about her struggle with it--is indeed serious. But...

Genes are not destiny in determining whether a person will suffer from depression, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. Environment...

Higher oxytocin levels in the third trimester of pregnancy predicts the severity of postpartum depression symptoms in women who previously...

Abuse and dependence on "hard drugs" (cocaine, hallucinogen or PCP, opiate, amphetamine and sedatives) are less common among delinquent African...

Big differences in the ways conservatives and liberals think about solving the nation's most pressing problems couldn't be more apparent...

A new Northwestern Medicine study has found an adolescent male's attitude toward risky sex, pregnancy and birth control can predict...

Do the cultures in which we live shape how we view the objects and events in the world that surrounds...

Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to specifically modify gene expression in diseased upper motor...

A new Northwestern University and UCLA study has found for the first time that young people who are high on...

Northwestern University neuroscientists now can read the mind of a fly. They have developed a clever new tool that lights...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have examined activity in a little-studied part of the brain associated with memory and found for the...

At 12 months old, your infant's ability to group objects according to the names associated with them -- as opposed...

Murderers who kill intimate partners and family members have a significantly different psychological and forensic profile from murderers who kill...

Some stressful experiences - such as chronic childhood abuse - are so overwhelming and traumatic, the memories hide like a...

Male and female brains operate differently at a molecular level, a Northwestern University research team reports in a new study...