Psychiatry

Choose experiences over goods, delay gratification and remember that wealthy people are not any happier than the average Joe

Declarative memory, rooted in the hippocampus, could help the brain pick up the slack for diverse impairments across many developmental disorders such as autism and obsessive-compulsive disorder

When you are nervous, empathy can fail you

Experimental vaccine manipulates the immune system to alleviate the development of anxiety and fear in rodents

A new documentary film presents the science behind when and why people lie. Daisy Yuhas reports

Autism and schizophrenia are related to different forms of creativity

People tend to remember a color they saw, for example green-blue teal, as being closer to a more stereotypical variant, such as straight blue or green. Karen Hopkin reports

A review of studies on the treatment of chronic insomnia finds that cognitive behavioral therapy is an effective alternative to drug interventions

The first longitudinal study in children supports the theory that parents with unrealistically positive views of their kids foster narcissistic qualities

Random checks of pilots' psychological fitness could help reduce risks, Lufthansa Chief Executive Carsten Spohr said in his first newspaper interview since the crash of a Germanwings plane in March

So many people are singing the praises of neurologist and author Oliver Sacks that I hesitate to chime in. In February, Sacks revealed in The New York Times that he has terminal cancer, and reviewers are now raving about his new autobiography, On the Move, and entire oeuvre.