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A new King’s College London study supports the notion that multiple personality disorder is rooted in traumatic experiences such as neglect or abuse in childhood, rather than being related to…

Bereavement, bullying, exams and physical health conditions such as acne and asthma are some of the experiences linked to suicide in children and young people according to a new report by The…

A large national Norwegian study shows that workaholism frequently co-occurs with ADHD, OCD, anxiety, and depression.

A new study supports the notion that multiple personality disorder is rooted in traumatic experiences such as neglect or abuse in childhood, rather than being related to suggestibility or proneness to fantasy.

During sensory stimulation, increases in blood flow are not precisely ‘tuned’ to local neural activity, report investigators. This finding challenges the long-held view that vascular and local neural responses are tightly coupled and could suggest limi…

Approximately half of patients hospitalized with traumatic brain injuries are anemic, according to recent studies, but anemia’s effects on the recovery of these patients is not clear. Now, researchers have found evidence that anemia can negatively infl…

During and after chemotherapy, many cancer patients describe feeling a mental fog, a condition that has been dubbed ‘chemo brain.’ Why this happens is unclear, but researchers have found a new clue to understanding this syndrome. A new study reports th…

A study shows which psychological characteristics of some new mothers may affect how they use Facebook to show off their baby.

Researchers from the University of Rochester suggest that children raised in poverty may have been mistakenly labeled as “maladapted” for what appears to be a lack of self-control.

Fewer adolescents also report using marijuana.A survey of more than 216,000 adolescents from all 50 states indicates the number of teens with marijuana-related problems is declining.