Researchers at Penn Medicine have identified specific brain circuits that are impacted by psilocybin—the active compound ...

Personalized high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation is linked to improved outcomes in moderate-to-severe ...

A comprehensive new review published in the journal Science China Life Sciences synthesizes decades of research to explain how anxiety and depression arise from a complex interplay of genetic ...

A traditionally overlooked type of RNA plays an important role in promoting resilience to depression-but only in females. According to a new study led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, ...

Extreme instances of stress can cause lasting changes to the brain itself. This could leave some people more vulnerable to ...

Reading Dr. Mark Rego’s provocative, intense “Frontal Fatigue: The Impact of Modern Life and Technology on Mental Illness,” I found myself thinking of David Foster Wallace’s “This Is Water.” In it, ...

Much criminal behavior derives from logical, if not laudable, sources. A wonderful example of this was seen in the old Bob Newhart television show. Newhart, playing a clinical psychologist, leans ...

Obtaining a prefrontal cortex (PFC) biopsy during deep brain stimulation (DBS) procedures is safe, according to a study published online Sept. 3 in Neurosurgery. Sema Akkus, M.D., from the Icahn ...