New research in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging identifies a novel neural pathway to treat alcohol use disorder. This figure shows areas in which tolcapone, relative to ...

Compulsive traits are tendencies to repeat patterned behaviors. They are often seen in psychiatric conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), addiction and eating disorders. However, ...

Individuals with psychiatric disorders exhibiting seemingly similar symptoms often respond very differently to the same treatment, suggesting that distinct biological processes are at work beneath the ...

A new method for neuroimaging analysis is shown to work with small groups of participants, opening the door for many studies that don't have access to massive sets of brain images. A group of ...

The field of psychiatry is experiencing a transformative shift toward precision medicine, a paradigm that tailors treatment to the unique characteristics of individual patients. This approach echoes ...

In recent times, more effort has been devoted to ascertaining effective screening methods for the early detection of, and subsequent intervention for, psychiatric conditions in children. Recent ...

(A) For cortical mean diffusivity, warmer color indicates greater reduction in grey matter integrity. For cortical thickness, cooler color reflects greater reduction in grey matter thickness. (B) ...