Put your rational hat on, if you will, and consider these questions:

If our actions are determined by prior events, then do we have a choice about anything?or any responsibility for what we do?

Despite possessing a different brain architecture, birds are self-aware: which is essential the evolution of consciousness. This makes them more cognitively sophisticated than most mammals!

SUNDAY, August 17, 2008 (Health.com) Psychologist compares the driving abilities of those taking antidepressants versus those NOT taking antidepressants.

Most shoppers are guilty of at least one impulse purchase, but a study released yesterday said those who feel guilty about it are likely to fare better than those who experience the more intense feeling of shame.

The secret of why horror films make some people scream in terror while others may simply laugh has been revealed.

Photographer Jenn Ackerman has created a stunning and extensive video essay on Kentucky's correctional facility for prisoners with mental illness, interviewing the inmates, staff and clinicians who form part of America's biggest provider of residential ps

Doctors should ask their teenage patients what type of music they prefer to determine if they are at risk of developing a mental illness or committing suicide, researchers say.

Despite these beliefs both in sociology textbooks and in the general public, the actual evidence does not support it.

Cartoons about the psychiatrist's couch were recently the subject of a museum exhibition. Now, the couch itself may be headed for a museum. A new study finds a significant decline in psychotherapy practiced by U.S. psychiatrists.