Brain differences in children and teens who experiment with drugs early show up before they take their first puff or sip ...

Paleoneurobiologist Emiliano Bruner explores the superpower of projecting images and words that has allowed us to make a ...

People with higher levels of social anxiety are more likely to remember faces they saw while making mistakes, and this may be due to how their brains respond to errors in the moment. A new study ...

For decades, Americans have been told a simple story about addiction: taking drugs damages the brain—and the earlier in life children start using substances, the more likely they are to progress ...

A study of 20,000 anxiety disorder patients shows how negativity bias affects brain structure, cognitive function and mental health, supporting the view that mental illness is brain illness.

So many kids are constantly on social media, and on this episode of “Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta,” we explore the potential impact on their mental health. What does constantly consuming ...

We can begin to control anxiety when we understand its genetic survival value, recognize its distortions, and learn how to block the brain's secret love affair with it.

A study published today in Current Biology finds that children and adults have different concentrations of a key brain messenger called gamma-aminobutyric acid or GABA.