Resilience relies on the brain’s ability to regulate emotion, adapt, and recover. Myelin plasticity helps speed up and stabilize resilient brain responses. Genes like FKBP5 and BDNF affect how people ...

Dave Philipps of The New York Times shares how he reported his stories despite extremely limited access to military officials ...

Dealing with major depressive disorder and anger issues from past trauma, Charles turned to drinking and overeating as coping mechanisms – habits that took him years to ...

These VA workers were helping veterans. One had even found $10 million in cost savings. But they were fired under a false ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

A Traumatic Brain Injury could not just leave physical damage, it could also lead to developing mental health issues.

A painless and non-invasive pulse of electrical stimulation to specific brain areas can ease some symptoms of post-stroke ...

Next time you feel an itch, remember that your brain's vast network of neurons informs it whether it is an itch or pain. A ...

This remains the case even though in his later work, Freud revised his original concept of repression to argue that it ...

Doctors have to make life and death decisions for patients with severe brain injuries, but they can’t always agree about the potential for recovery.

Microdosing psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin shows potential for enhancing mental health, creativity, and cognitive ...

According to PTSD United, about 20% of individuals who have experienced a traumatic event end up developing post traumatic stress disorder. Processing, or thinking about, these memories can be ...