Cognition

Your heart races, you feel lightheaded, your sweat glands work overtime—is this the end? Nope, it's a panic attack.  The Savvy Psychologist has 6 ways to fight this disabling disorder

Female axons—brain cells’ output cables—are shown to have a thinner structure

Tales with individual faces and objects seem to help

We may be underestimating how much pain babies feel when they are under stress

Cultural barriers lead clinicians to misdiagnose or miss kids with the condition

Superior IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

It hasn’t been compared with traditional drugs or therapy

Ignoring a Western child-rearing practice does not seem to matter for the Tsimané of Bolivia

The protection of intellectual property is essential for economic advancement

As long as we lack a "consciousness meter," we can’t resolve debates about what is or isn’t conscious

Many of us have been caught talking to our dogs, but how much of what we say to them do they actually understand?