“Diagnosis usually begins with brain imaging, a CT scan can quickly detect bleeding,” says Dr Steven Allder, consultant ...

Researchers: Patterns in brain activity could reveal who will keep their word. Dec. 13, 2009— -- Promises are made to be broken, so it can be tough to tell which ones will be kept. But new-found ...

Why don’t we remember specific events during those crucial first few years, when our brains worked overtime to learn so much? A new Yale study finds evidence that we do form memories, but can’t ...

Kim Kardashian’s recent revelation about suffering a brain aneurysm has brought attention to a condition that affects ...

With a simple standard MRI scan of the brain, it may soon be possible to predict which people with mental illnesses will gain ...

A brain exercise a day might keep you current—it might even revive your brain chemistry. In a landmark clinical trial led by ...

“A really big question that, at least I ask myself, is, ‘How do we become who we are?’” University of Virginia psychology graduate student Olivia Allison said. New work she is conducting in UVA’s Baby ...

If EKGs can detect potential problems in heart function, then doctors are asking why brain scans can’t be used in the same way, to identify disorders like depression, autism or schizophrenia. Doctors ...

It's widely recognized that psychiatric conditions like depression and anxiety disorders are based in the brain. Scientists have even started to discover which brain areas are involved in different ...