The therapists in ‘Shrinking’ cross nearly every possible boundary with their patients—and that’s a really bad thing, writes Joe Nocera.

A woman developed psychosis, and her symptoms escalated rapidly, prompting clinicians to retrace the events leading up to her hospitalization.

Mendelian imputation is a promising method for imputing missing parental genotypes and estimating direct and indirect genetic effects. While the method has clear scientific benefits, so far there has ...

A new study in Public Understanding of Science finds that people tend to see good behavior as more genetically caused than bad behavior, mainly because kindness and generosity are perceived as more na...

A day after a shooting at a school in Minnesota, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed, as he has before, that certain antidepressant drugs, known as SSRIs, “might be contr...

The United States has never had a situation in which political and ideological nonscientists got the last word about what is credible science. The direct political oversight of science represented in ...

Judges generally make pretrial release decisions based on the risk that a defendant will miss court appearances or pose a danger to the community; for criminal cases initiated in state courts, this de...

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Understanding the relationship between firearm regulations and the lethality of mass murder involving firearms has implications for prevention efforts. We examined 625 incidents of mass murder involv...

Access to care could be affected, following HHS indication that it will not enforce updates adopted in 2024 to the mental health parity law.

Undermining the future of American science is not a path to accountability — it’s a path to decline.

Top medical experts reviewed records and questioned the treatment two immigrants received before their deaths. “That’s certainly substandard care,” said one neurologist.“That’s certainly substandard c...

Increasingly, judges are giving lighter sentences to criminals who suffered abuse during childhood. That could be good news for the Menendez brothers.

A generative AI–powered therapy chatbot is linked to significant reductions in symptoms of depression, anxiety, and eating disorders, results of a randomized controlled trial show.

Loneliness has become a global health crisis, linked to depression, dementia, and early death. With over a billion people affected, how are countries working to reconnect us?

Abrupt cuts by the Trump administration to the US National Institutes of Health threaten progress in medical research globally.

Administration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

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This randomized controlled trial secondary analysis examines the association between treatment expectancies and the relative efficacy of psilocybin compared with escitalopram for major depressive diso...

Manufacturers of drugs or devices that are prescribed by physicians are protected by the “learned intermediary rule” from having to disclose risks directly to patients. Instead, they must inform physi...