At the airport, I look for omens. I call my mother to say “good-bye” — she has no idea I mean the big good-bye. By the time I get to my seat, my brain has gone full Final Destination. Suddenly, I’m ...

Her relapse into depression felt like defeat—but it offered vital clues to achieving lasting psychiatric relief. The ...

A study of 20,000 anxiety disorder patients shows how negativity bias affects brain structure, cognitive function and mental health, supporting the view that mental illness is brain illness.

The hypothalamus is key to regulating various metabolic functions but also plays an important role in processing fear and stress responses, which is one area of the brain implicated in anxiety ...

New Delhi: Among the global rise in obesity rates, a study showed that being overweight can lead to mental health issues like anxiety and also impair brain functioning. The animal study suggested ...

Summary: New research reveals that psychedelics like psilocybin do more than alter brain activity — they reshape how the brain and immune system communicate. Scientists identified a pathway where ...

“This molecule became a link that connects immune system activation, manifested as a fever, to changes in brain function and changes in the animals’ behavior,” Choi said. IL-17 comes in six ...

At a glance: Research in mice shows that inflammatory molecules influence mood and behavior by acting on specific brain regions. The findings help explain why some people experience lasting mood ...

For the millions living with anxiety, this research marks a turning point. The brain is not broken—it’s simply been rewired by experience. And with the right tools, it can be rewired again.

Mental Health You can actually change the brain waves involved in depression and anxiety with this trick By McKenzie Beard Published Feb. 14, 2025, 12:48 p.m. ET ...

The study showed that two parts of the brain work together to learn to suppress fear. But, surprisingly, only one of these regions is involved in later recalling the learnt behaviour.

In the other circuit, which runs to the BLA from a sensory and interoception (internal body-sensing)-integrating part of the brain called the insula, activating mGluR2 had different anxiety ...