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Stanford researchers find that positive expectations can make children less anxious about mild but uncomfortable symptoms that arise during treatment for peanut allergies.

The nonprofit Wellcome Trust recently announced a $200 million commitment to support more mental health research, including scientists studying the underpinnings of existing treatments.

Research may lead to novel ways to treat chronic pain.

Philosophers, Writers, and Scientists Agree

Many of us are in the habit of burning the candle at both ends during the week and crashing on the weekend, but experts are issuing increasingly dire warnings about the dangers of "sleep deficit" -- a chronic shortage of rest that is wreaking havoc on our

While it's no secret that mood or anxiety might play a part in a restless night, a new study has shed light on how your personality can affect the quality of your sleep.

Liqun Luo, Stanford University, will receive the 2019 Pradel Research Award.

A toxic job can make you sick in a multitude of ways.

Researchers studying mouse brains identified the cells that encode pain's unpleasantness.

Conventional MRI or CT scans can reveal only so much about what a patient’s brain looks like. But feed those images into VR technology, and surgeons can see the brain—all the ridges and fissures, lobes and veins—in 3D, so they can simulate surgery before

Brain development is a remarkable self-organization process in which cells proliferate, differentiate, migrate, and wire to form functional neural circuits.

Machine learning makes new sense of psychiatric symptoms

From the disappearance of good health insurance to the psychological effects of long hours, the modern workplace is taking its toll on all of us.

Alarmed by the addictive nature of nicotine in e-cigarettes and its impact on the developing brain, public health experts are struggling to address a surging new problem: how to help teenagers quit vaping.

Chores are the worst.

Congratulations! – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University Sergiu Pasca, MD, for receiving the 2018 Daniel H. Efron Research Award.