In a study that looked at suicide deaths during 2020’s first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Maryland, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers found that, contrary…
A public health advisory issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2003, followed by drug label warnings, indicated that children and adolescents…
An MRI in each other’s arms shows how physical contact alters the brains of couples. Researchers at Aalto University and Turku PET Centre have developed…
The combination of naltrexone and ketamine can help treat both symptoms of addiction and depression, a preliminary study by Yale University researchers suggests. Substance abuse…
Gene variants associated with alcohol dependence are also linked to the risk of psychiatric disorders and other drug use, a massive study of more than…
Psychedelic drugs such as LSD have a profound impact on human consciousness, particularly perception. Researchers at Yale and the University of Zurich provide new insight…
How do house hunters who visit 20 homes daily still recall details of the master bedroom of a specific one? Our memories can perform this…
Researchers at Yale School of Public Health and their scientific partners have found that having a depressed spouse can increase one’s own depressive symptoms as…
Yale scientists have identified a possible neurobiological home for the spiritual experience — the sense of connection to something greater than oneself. Activity in the…
A blood test may have the potential to speed accurate diagnosis – and proper treatment – of bipolar disorder in children, new research suggests. Researchers…
For the first time, researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich could prove that a stress protein found in muscle has a…
Using a new technique called vibrational spectroscopy, doctors at Yale have developed a novel way to scan for Alzheimer’s disease. Deep within our brains is…
New research from Yale University reveals that patients with different types of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have impairments in unique brain systems, indicating that there may…
A new genome-wide association study (GWAS) by Yale and University of Pennsylvania researchers found that a gene variant involved in brain development is strongly associated…
Researchers from Yale University produced increased grooming behavior in mice that may model tics in Tourette syndrome and discovered these behaviors vanish when histamine is…
A team of scientists has discovered four genes that are associated with a higher risk of developing Tourette’s disorder, although variants in as many as…
New research from Yale University shows that an increase in the STEP (STriatal-Enriched protein tyrosine Phosphatase) protein leads to a disruption of synaptic function and…
A new equation shows how our happiness depends not only on what happens to us and how this compares to other people.The team developed an…