Life-hack: Rituals spell anxiety relief

Researchers are examining the important roles rituals play in reducing our anxiety levels.

Mindfulness combined with hypnotherapy aids highly stressed people, study finds

A new treatment for stress which combines mindfulness and hypnotherapy has shown positive results.

Repetitive negative thinking linked to dementia risk

Persistently engaging in negative thinking patterns may raise the risk of Alzheimer's disease, finds a new UCL-led study published in Alzheimer's & Dementia.

Psychedelic drug psilocybin tamps down brain's ego center

To see how psychedelics impact the claustrum, a mysterious region of the brain believed to control the ego, researchers compared the brain scans of people after they took psilocybin with their scans after taking a placebo.

Study in twins finds our sensitivity is partly in our genes

Some people are more sensitive than others -- and around half of these differences can be attributed to our genes, new research has found.