Mental Health

Health workers are not trained to address patients' self-destructive impulses—but they should be

Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen talks to award-winning journalist and news anchor Dan Harris to bust the myths that stop you from meditating

The term acknowledges that addiction is a chronic but treatable medical condition involving changes to circuits involved in reward, stress and self-control

The cognitive style you need in times of change, explained by best-selling author Leonard Mlodinow

There might be a way—and if so, we could use it to detect and treat them in the earliest stages, before they become debilitating

AI-controlled devices record neural activity and automatically stimulate the brain

Ethicists and scientists are considering the place of neuroscience in the courtroom

Up to 25% of people who take antidepressants report significant weight gain. Is there anything you can do to fight back?

The notorious party drug may act as an antidepressant by blocking neural bursts in a little-understood brain region that may drive depression

Imaging technologies could find the best treatments for depression and addiction—and could even reshape education

A fresh wave of research involves reprogramming ordinary skin cells into those found in the brain

In psychology and psychiatry, it really means average or typical, but we too easily think of it as a synonym for how everyone is supposed to think and feel