The UCSD psychiatry researcher championed the concept of mental illness as a neurobiological condition and helped form the US government’s Decade of the Brain initiative.

Some academic institutions are beginning to complement the work of student organizations in addressing mental health problems in graduate school.

Complications during pregnancy may act via the placenta to magnify the effects of genetic risk factors.

The neuronal coverings that mediate synaptic changes are involved in everything from memory to psychiatric disorders, affecting autism, Alzheimer’s, and addiction.

See the web of proteins that make up these neuronal wrappings.

Presentations at the Society for Neuroscience meeting point to changes in neurons and connectivity between brain regions as potential components of the enigmatic condition.

Researchers are piecing together the links between the gut microbiome and mental health.

The brains of primates and mice follow the same exponential rule of connectivity, according to a study.

The same genes can make people more sensitive to their experiences, “for better of for worse,” psychologists argue.