Psychology & Psychiatry

Key mental abilities can actually improve during aging

It's long been believed that advancing age leads to broad declines in our mental abilities. Now new research from Georgetown University Medical Center offers surprisingly good news by countering this view.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Exploring the links between self-control and wellbeing

Dr. Olivia Remes has spent her career researching mental health and wellbeing. In her new book, "The Instant Mood Fix," she brings together the research in this field in a bid to help others. Writing it has been a very personal ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Stress does not lead to loss of self-control in eating disorders

A unique residential study has concluded that, contrary to perceived wisdom, people with eating disorders do not lose self-control—leading to binge-eating—in response to stress. The findings of the Cambridge-led research ...

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