In training and adolescent development I often refer to the emotional brains inability to see the future. As a result, the more distant...

When brain lesions occur within the brain network responsible for morality and value-based decision-making, they can predispose a person...

New types of experiments call activity of hundreds of labs and thousands of scientific studies in neuroscience into question, and could...

The brains of adolescents react more responsively to receiving rewards. This can lead to risky behaviour, but, according to Leiden...

Callous-unemotional traits have been linked to deficits in development of the conscience and of empathy. Children and adolescents react...

Centuries of study have yielded many theories about how the brain gives rise to human intelligence. Some neuroscientists think...

Recent studies into the nature of faith have been suggesting that believers in religion are more intuitive and less analytical in their...

Lucid dreaming is a state of sleep whereby you realize you are in a dream and have the ability to consciously control what happens next....

As one of the 30 per cent of the population that experiences sleep paralysis, I am fascinated with the subject. Discussion of the...

Infographic courtesy of Aaron Weintraub In training and lectures on child and adolescent development I explore and discuss the lack...

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are commonly prescribed for depression and anxiety but their superiority over placebo has...

Many years ago I recall Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrell suggesting that schizophrenia may be caused by dream centers in the brain. A recent...

Doctoral student Alan S. Cowen and Prof. Dacher Keltner, PhD have created a new kind of map. Based on the study of emotion they have...

Sleep deprivation -- typically administered in controlled, inpatient settings -- rapidly reduces symptoms of depression in roughly half...

An interesting break through in the study of cannabis psychosis has revealed not just a mechanism for the disorder but also a potential...

In lecturers and training on adolescent development I often discuss the emergence of empathy during puberty. Now research has caught the...

Tackling the big issues of the day, it is surprising how much psychological research is devoted to this subject. The history of...

A number of new studies have emerged that have revealed significant insight into the nature of hearing voices. The first study looked at...

A little known theory of learning is making a come back in understanding learning. Perceptual Control Theory can be applied to amateurs...

A human being's psychological make-up depends on an array of emotional and motivational parameters, such as desire, suffering or the need...