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Anxiety is one of the most common mental health disorders, and it’s more likely to affect women, especially middle-aged women. Although anxiety can be caused by many factors, a new study suggests that the amount of abdominal fat a woman has could incre…

Graduate students are more than six times as likely to experience depression and anxiety as compared to the general population, according to a comprehensive survey of 2,279 individuals conducted via social media and direct email.

According to a recent study, babies who live in single-mother households are more likely to be healthy at the age of 1 if they resemble their father.

People with major depressive disorder (MDD) feel more negative emotion when remembering painful experiences than people without the disorder, according to a new study. The study reports that people with MDD were able to control the negative emotions ab…

People who talk a lot about themselves are not narcissists as one might expect. Instead, those who say ‘I’ and ‘me’ a lot may be prone to depression, anxiety and other negative emotions, researchers found.

Scientists have studied thalidomide’s target protein, cereblon (CRBN), and its binding protein, AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), which plays an important role in maintaining intracellular energy homeostasis in the brain. Through their study, they r…

Researchers recently elucidated the regenerative processes by neural stem cells using a stab injury model in the optic tectum, a less studied area of the brain, of adult zebrafish. This study has brought them a step closer to shedding light on how an i…

Treatments targeted to enhance brain neurotrophic factor signaling could improve memory functions in Alzheimer’s disease even though they don’t alter brain amyloid burden, according to recent research.

The visual system optimally maintains attention on relevant objects even as eye movements are made, shows a new study.

Scientists have moved one major step towards the development of a novel form of brain-based treatment for phobia that may soon be applicable to patients.