Psychosis is popularly portrayed as visual hallucinations and paranoid delusions (e.g., "A Beautiful Mind," "Shutter Island"). Psychotic conditions, like schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, actually ...

Neuroscientists have devised a way to alter our social perception and monitor specific types of hallucinations, both in healthy individuals and patients with Parkinson's disease. The test, which is ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is one broad category with three different levels to specify the degree of support a person needs. Until recently, autism was categorized into four types. Before 2013, ...

Working in a mouse model, UC Davis researchers are able to distnguish brain cells activated by a psychedelic drug. This image shows the prefrontal cortex of a mouse injected with scFLARE2 (purple) ...