Mental Health

Lack of sleep blunts emotional reactions, especially positive feelings

A new study opens a door to more biologically based categories of major mental illness

Scientific American MIND talks to the author of Why We Snap

Psychologist James W. Pennebaker explains why it helps

Couples who have sex at least once a week are happiest, perhaps because we think it’s the norm

Inside the March/April 2016 Scientific American MIND

A neuroscientist explains the rage circuits in your brain

New research suggests the disorder often looks different in females, many of whom are being misdiagnosed and missing out on the support they need

By tweaking brain chemistry, a number of common drugs can alter moral decision-making

Cross-Check columns on efforts to understand and treat depression, schizophrenia, alcoholism and other mental disorders

New research provides evidence that partners are more similar in psychiatric status than chance would predict

The intrepid explorer and scientific maverick appears to have suffered from anxiety and panic attacks