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Adults living with congenital heart disease (CHD) may have a significantly higher risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than people in the general population.

Learn about the symptoms of anxiety attacks, including when they might occur, how long they can last for and what can be done about them.

Refugees face a substantially higher risk of psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia, compared to non-refugee migrants from the same regions of origin, finds a study published in The BMJ.

Scientists have discovered a mechanism for how anxiety may disrupt decision making. They report that anxiety disengages a region of the brain called the prefrontal cortex, which is critical for flexible decision making.

Adults living with congenital heart disease may have a significantly higher risk of post-traumatic stress disorder than people in the general population. Clinicians and caregivers may need to be aware of possible PTSD symptoms, such as anxiety and depr…

New research found that a reduction in dopamine levels in a small region of the basal ganglia in the finches’ brains caused a reduction in their ability to correct vocal errors, while having no detectable effect on their ability to sing.

Mothers who have postnatal depression are unlikely to have more than two children according to research carried out by evolutionary anthropologists. Until now very little has been known about how women’s future fertility is impacted by the experience o…

For our brain it makes a great difference whether we remember experiences from long ago, or if we recollect recent events. Neuroscientists were able to show that distinct brain-networks are involved.

Royal Holloway psychologists have demonstrated that people’s ability to notice tactile stimuli is reduced when they are carrying out a demanding visual task.

Scientists taught Braille to sighted individuals and found that learning such a complex tactile task activates the visual cortex, when you’d only expect it to activate the tactile one.