Many sexual assault victims also suffer a form of brain damage, reveals new research. Previous studies have shown that around ...

In a major shift for how mental health conditions might be treated, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ...

A new study reported in Molecular Psychiatry has shown that people with anxiety disorders tend to have lower levels of a ...

Brain scientists looked inside the open skulls of 16 epilepsy patients and tracked how a thought develops and moves.

Obtaining prefrontal cortex biopsies during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery in living patients does not increase the risk of adverse events or cognitive decline compared to standard DBS ...

Many horse owners think the existence of the prefrontal cortex is a major controversy in equine science. It’s not. It’s just an area that’s riddled with misinformation. Curiously, most people—horsey ...

Attention disorders such as ADHD arise when the brain struggles to separate important signals from irrelevant noise. At any ...

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new ...