Mind & Brain

Some animals’ babies physically relax when their parents whisk them away from danger. The same thing works for tiny, wailing humans.

Scientists figure out the origin of our fear of clowns

The Havana syndrome saga is an epic failure of science, one with severe consequences both for patients and for international relations

Conservatives tend to believe that strict divisions are an inherent part of life. Liberals do not

Cognitive-behavioral therapy helps to treat symptoms of schizophrenia for which drugs are ineffective

Plato was right: newborns do math

The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system

Researchers who study aphantasia, or the inability to visualize something in your “mind’s eye,” are starting to get a sense of how to accurately measure the condition and what it may mean for those who have it.

Scientists are deciphering how the brain choreographs immune responses, hoping to find treatments for a range of diseases

How romance affects our well-being is a lot more complicated than “they lived happily ever after.”

A psychiatrist who has studied the effects of previous devastating quakes explains how the Turkey-Syria earthquake could impact survivors’ mental health

In fair zoo-ona, a pair of star-cross’d pandas take their life. And we learn about whether or not animals can fall in love.