There is no single test to diagnose schizophrenia. Healthcare professionals may use a variety of tests to rule out other ...

But the healthcare system in the US still struggles to provide adequate care for those with serious mental illness ...

Weill Cornell Medicine's study identified that individuals with a larger salience network in their brain are more likely to ...

The release of Determined, a new book by renowned Stanford professor of primate behavior and neuroscience Robert M. Sapolsky, has catapulted him into the middle of an ancient debate: whether humans ...

A neuroscientist underwent MRIs during her pregnancy and postpartum. Her team found two major changes in her brain.

A group of scientists are hopeful their research findings about how schizophrenia originates and develops over time in the brain will pave ... behavior and emotion. People with schizophrenia ...

The release of Determined, a new book by renowned Stanford professor of primate behavior and neuroscience Robert M. Sapolsky, ...

Generally, the condition is pretty rare and affects less than 1% of the U.S. population. Most people with this condition ...

Daily, we encounter new people ... deep within the brain in each hemisphere. Today, we know that many diseases related to higher cognitive function, such as Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, and ...

Those scans looked for the accumulation of amyloid protein plaques within brain tissues -- a known hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. Among people who had either mild depressive symptoms or none ...

A new study suggests that mindfulness meditation influences how the brain perceives pain in ways that are distinct from the placebo effect. Breathe in, breathe out — new brain scans have ...

The scans were compared to brain changes in eight people who were not pregnant. Researchers observed some parts of the brain shrinking in volume and thickness by the ninth week of pregnancy, ...