It sounds counterintuitive that thinking about happy memories might make us sad. Yet, that is exactly what people struggling with depression may experience. Unlike people who have never experienced ...

Sad people are apparently better than happy people at face recognition, an upside to being down in the dumps that is yielding insights into how mood can affect the brain. The findings, based on ...

President Clinton learned family values in a fractured household where his stepfather once fired a gun at his mother. Clinton was 5 years old at the time, and his mother, Virginia Kelley, and ...

People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) experience traumatic memories differently than other types of negative memories. A recent Nature Neuroscience study investigates the neural patterns ...