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Diagnosing mental illness has never been simple. New research plumbs the depths of protein analysis on the hunt for the chemical fingerprints of bipolar disorder.

Diagnosing mental illness has never been simple. New research plumbs the depths of protein analysis on the hunt for the chemical fingerprints of bipolar disorder.

The hormone estrogen helps protect memory and promote a healthy brain, but this effect wanes as women age, and even estrogen replacement therapy stops working in humans after age 65. Now researchers have used gene therapy in a rat model to show that th…

Playing three-dimensional video games — besides being lots of fun — can boost the formation of memories, according to neurobiologists. Along with adding to the trove of research that shows these games can improve eye-hand coordination and reaction ti…

The neurological changes sleep deprivation can impose on our ability to regulate emotions have been revealed by new research. The work also shows that we have the ability to allocate brain resources for cognitive processing.

Three biomarker-based categories, called biotypes, outperformed traditional diagnoses, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with psychosis, in sorting psychosis cases into distinct subgroups on the basis of brain biology. The biotypes were more b…

Change your attitude. Change your behavior. Change your brain. Discussing the costs of pursuing the unrealistic thin beauty ideal reduces valuation of this idea.

‘Delay discounting’ is the tendency, given the choice, to take a smaller reward that is available immediately, instead of a larger reward that will be delivered in the future.