With growing interest in using psychedelic drugs to treat mental health disorders, researchers have explored the effects of a psychedelic derivative of amphetamine on rat brains. They wanted to see ...

A study by Dorothy P. Schafer, Ph.D., and Travis E. Faust, Ph.D., at UMass Chan Medical School, explains how two different cell types in the brain—astrocytes and microglia—communicate in response to ...

I'm excited to share that in a 2024 study by the National Institute of Mental Health, researchers tracked the brain activity of children diagnosed with clinical anxiety. Before treatment, their scans ...

That mental merry-go-round of “what ifs” and “should haves” isn’t just annoying. It’s actually rewiring your brain as you read this sentence. Overthinking – that relentless mental chewing on problems ...

Whatever brings you — or your partner or child — into therapy, the world of mental health care is changing fast to respond to the extreme stress most of us are feeling now. A new psychotherapy, which ...

January is a time when many people reflect on their goals for the year ahead—a new job, a promotion, hitting the gym, or overall better health—but research from Baylor College of Medicine and ...