Emotional & Mental Health Articles

Overcoming an alcohol addiction is a daunting task. Drink is everywhere, withdrawal can be tough, and returning to your old ways is always tempting. Here's what you need to know about becoming sober.

You may think humans are better able to relate to other humans than computers are, but that doesn't stop them from being able to detect fake pain much more accurately than people, a new study reveals. Why?

Recent research may have uncovere the reason Alzheimer's and other brain diseases seem both to be caused by and to cause serious sleep disturbances and loss of sense of time.

Meditation is an effective technique for reducing stress and maintaining a positive, healthy outlook. One technique, known as mindfulness meditation, is proving to be effective at treating loneliness, depression and social anxiety disorder.

Sooner or later, most of us run into someone who might be diagnosed as having a psychopathic personality disorder. If we're lucky, we aren't living with them. But the encounter with psychopathy in daily life can help us understand their contributions.

With addiction to heroin a growing problem, researchers have been looking for a cure for a while. Scientists at Mexico’s National Institute of Psychiatry report they have successfully tested a heroin vaccine on mice and now are ready to use it on humans.

The first five days of quitting smoking are the hardest, but this quitter stuck it out and is nicotine-free now. Would you like to quit cigarettes too? Read on for advice on how to quit and to remind yourself of the benefits of being a non smoker.

Nobody is perfect, but people with Body Dysmorphic Disorder are affected by their perceived flaws so much that they can't enjoy life and may seek repeated plastic surgery procedures in an attempt to feel better.

Experiments done using the human stem cells have successfully identified the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) which is responsible for the action of antidepressant drugs.

One of the qualities that we often find compelling in another person is genuine kindness. When we meet someone who is very kind, we feel safe and valued. We feel safe and valued because kindness is the opposite of judgment, and judgment is what many peopl