A new study reveals that sexual assault significantly impacts the brain, with 70% of survivors developing PTSD. Researchers found that crucial communi ...

Despite how natural friendship can feel, people rarely stop to analyze it. How do you know when someone will make a good friend? When is it time to move on from a friendship? Oftentimes, people rely ...

Our ideas about “healthy boundaries” aren’t universal. Explore how cultural values influence the way we set limits, connect, ...

Signs you may have anorexia include restricting the types and amount of food you eat, obsessive calorie counting, and having a fear of gaining weight.

Whereas someone may develop PTSD after a single traumatic event, like an assault, CPTSD can occur with repeated trauma, such ...

Research in Biological Psychiatry indicates that people who experienced childhood trauma carry unique metabolic patterns into ...

Female veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder who spent eight weeks training service dogs for other veterans showed measurable changes in their cellular aging markers.

Elizabeth Lucas A UAB assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology has received a $3.5 ...

Generalized anxiety disorder affects 1 in 20 U.S. adults. Those with serious symptoms may isolate themselves to the point ...

As women get older, they tend to develop a more severe fear of driving as well as being a passenger in a car. This fear can ...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry provides evidence that posttraumatic stress disorder may be linked to ...

Eating fruit may reduce the effects of air pollution on lung function, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The study was ...