A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers insight into how past stress impacts a person's response to new stress. There are two leading hypotheses about how ...

Overthinking is often dismissed as “just anxiety. ” It is seen as a bad habit you need to snap out of. But psychology suggests it can be much deeper than that. For many people, overthinking isn’t a ...

Young women who engage in non-suicidal self-injury demonstrate significantly different brain activity when receiving positive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When someone’s gone through emotional neglect, chronic stress, or unprocessed trauma, it often shows up in ways that look like ...

Traumatic events actually cause distinct behaviors in the brain. Recalling a traumatic episode can make your brain think you are reliving it. The trauma response stems from your brain’s evolved ...

It’s such a familiar sensation. You start off the new year thinking that this is the year you’ll finally do it—create that change, hack that new habit, join the 5AM club or a gym, start that ...

Shane Tamura, the gunman who opened fire at NFL headquarters in Manhattan in July and killed four people, was diagnosed posthumously with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a brain disease linked ...