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A cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) app has been found to significantly prevent increases in depression in young people who are at high risk — and could be implemented as a cost effective public mental health measure.

Damage to the brainstem — the brain’s ‘control center’ — is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe Covid-19 infection, a study suggests.

A research team has revealed that a molecule in the brain — ophthalmic acid — unexpectedly acts like a neurotransmitter similar to dopamine in regulating motor function, offering a new therapeutic target for Parkinson’s and other movement diseases.

Rehearsing alternative outcomes of discarding through imagery rescripting shows promise as a treatment strategy for people who hoard, a study by psychology researchers has shown.

Researchers have developed a noninvasive way of using bioluminescent optogenetics to activate parts of the brain.

Auditory hallucinations are likely the result of abnormalities in two brain processes: a ‘broken’ corollary discharge that fails to suppress self-generated sounds, and a ‘noisy’ efference copy that makes the brain hear these sounds more intensely than …

Mindset and expectations, not just the external environment, shape the ‘table of contents’ into which our brains organize the day.

A new analysis assesses the heterogeneity of factors linked with happiness among single Americans who are just entering adulthood, highlighting a particularly strong link between happiness and satisfying friendships.

Neuroscientists say they have determined how a brain cell surface molecule shapes the way certain neurons behave.

A research team systematically analyzed 40 empirical studies, the majority of which had found that outdoor air pollution is associated with differences in children’s brains. These differences include volumes of white matter, which is associated with co…