Our brains anticipate sensory signals—such as sight, sound, smell, or touch—by relying on past experiences. When we bite into an apple, for example, we expect a sweet crunch because of all the other times we have eaten one.
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A new Yale study shows how the timing of depression in mothers and fathers affects mental health in their adult children. This includes influences on depression, anxiety, and psychotic disorders.
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Popular trauma-focused talking therapies can help people challenge false beliefs and distorted thinking patterns but do little to stop them hearing voices or seeing things that aren't there, according to a major review led ...
Apr 13, 2026
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Generative AI chatbots are now used by more than 987 million people globally, including around 64% of American teens, according to recent estimates. Increasingly, people are using these chatbots for advice, emotional support, ...
Apr 9, 2026
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A new study, led by scientists at University College Dublin and the University of Edinburgh, has found that commonly prescribed attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medication in childhood may lower the long-term ...
Mar 25, 2026
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A new clinic-ready web-based risk prediction tool called PsyMetRiC is now available to forecast the risk of young people with psychosis developing cardiometabolic disorders such as obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes.
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It's late at night inside a cramped interrogation room. The suspect being questioned may have come straight from working a double shift or maybe they've been sitting at the police station for hours. Exhausted, it's hard to ...
Mar 5, 2026
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Cameras that have been installed in their homes by the CIA, voices that whisper vicious words, and demons that appear in their bedroom at night. These are the delusions and hallucinations of psychosis, a core symptom of schizophrenia.
Mar 3, 2026
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In the early phases of depression and psychosis, patients often show altered inflammatory markers in the blood and structural changes in the gray matter of the brain. This was demonstrated in the international study entitled ...
Feb 24, 2026
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People born during the few years either side of 2000 are seemingly more vulnerable to conditions such as schizophrenia than those who grew up earlier, going by findings released by the Canadian Medical Association.
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