Childhood emotional and sexual abuse mark women’s brains in distinct patterns — with emotional abuse affecting regions involved in self-awareness and sexual abuse affecting areas involved in genital ...

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...

For the first time, researchers demonstrated in an animal how heavy alcohol use leads to long-term behavioral issues by damaging brain circuits critical for decision-making. Rats exposed to high ...

The physical conditions in detention centers doesn't make it better, experts say There’s a vivid term mental health experts use to describe the destruction of the love of life in another human being, ...

UCSF review is the largest to distill how stress affects all areas of a child’s health, starting in the womb through ...