According to a new Dutch study, using electrodes to stimulate areas deep in the brain may help people with treatment-resistant, severe obsessive compulsive disorder.

Your brain may be hard-wired to take your friends’ opinions seriously, even if you don’t have much in common, a new study suggests.

Watching too many TV medical dramas may reduce your satisfaction with life, a small new study suggests.

In self-embedding, people–often teens–deliberately insert objects made of such materials as wood, glass, and metal under their skin.

Scientists writing in the journal Nature have identified two parts of the brain associated with severe anxiety in young monkeys, and they say these same areas may also play a role in anxiety disorders in children.

Results from a new study in Norway suggest that a psychiatric disorder that is severe enough to keep people from working may also bring them greater risks of heart disease, suicide, and some cancers.

Men and women are more vulnerable to post-traumatic stress disorder at different points in their lives, researchers have found.

Babies whose mothers are caring and attentive usually grow into well-adjusted children, but now experts say they may also be more likely than their peers to grow into emotionally-healthy adults.

A new study adds to previous research showing that parents have lower feelings of well-being when their grown children have problems.

A team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has identified brain regions that play a role in the development of childhood anxiety.