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In a survey of 348 workers at a large psychiatric hospital, 99% of the staff reported verbal conflict with patients, and 70% reported being assaulted during the previous 12 months.

In a new study published online in Biological Psychiatry, researchers from Butler Hospital identify an association between biological changes on the cellular level and both childhood adversity and…

Doctors often recommend that partners be present if a patient is going through a painful medical procedure. However, a new study finds their presence may make pain worse.

Women rate emotional images as more emotionally stimulating than men do and are more likely to remember them.

Stomach sleepers with epilepsy may be at higher risk of sudden unexpected death, researchers report, drawing parallels to sudden infant death syndrome in babies. Epilepsy is a brain disorder that causes repeated seizures and affects an estimated 50 mil…

About 300 scientists used more than 30,000 brain scans and DNA samples to find eight gene mutations that affect the size of specific parts of the brain. The study could help identify people who would most benefit from new drugs designed to save brain c…

Researchers used high-resolution imaging of the living human brain to show for the first time that the brain’s protective blood barrier becomes leaky with age, starting at the hippocampus, a critical learning and memory center that is damaged by Alzhei…

Study shows that memory is an adaptive process, continually updating itself according to what knowledge may be important in the future.

With the help of videos and trained therapists, parents of at-risk kids may eventually help their toddlers to avoid an autism diagnosis.

Epigenetic changes are implicated in a host of neural conditions, from Alzheimer’s-related memory loss to depression. Now, a revolutionary set of molecular editing tools is allowing scientists to alter the epigenome like never before.