Why Some People Are Born to Be Afraid Scientists are discovering that our tendency to develop certain phobias might be ...

The amygdala makes regret feel like a jolt of pain! Source: Cast Of Thousands/Shutterstock If you think about your deepest regrets, what do you feel? The range of feelings is complicated; we think of ...

While most people would maybe silence their phone, scour WebMD, and move on, I couldn’t. (And this was pre-internet and cellphones, anyway!) I simply presented as a perfectionistic, high-achieving kid ...

Researchers suggest the mental health crisis for young people in the West could have an unexpected explanation: lives that ...

Around 2% of the population struggles with obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD. That's roughly 163 million people who go through cycles of obsessions – unwanted intrusive thoughts, images or urges – ...

The research constitutes some of the first evidence that the condition is associated with modifications in the brain before childbirth. By Pam Belluck Pam Belluck covers maternal mental health and ...