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Patients who have tried to commit suicide with medication, are prescribed more medication after the attempt, not less.

What makes a patient drop out from addiction treatment? It turns out scientists have been looking for the answer in the wrong place.

Positive expectations towards drinking alcohol in Malawi will in the end promote drinking itself, according to researcher.

A child's birth weight can explain brain development later in life.

Why are some people more vulnerable to depression than others? The short variant of a gene combined with stressful life events is enough to trigger a depressive episode.

People tend to be less satisfied with a decision if they arrived at it after changing their minds – even if the outcome is the same.

In many European countries there are negative attitudes towards immigrants, which may be due to fear. Now a team of researchers have developed a tool to measure xenophobia.

Which of the figures below is brightest in the middle? Maybe when your brain plays tricks on you it isn’t a mistake, but rather a sort of improvement on reality.

The methadone maintenance treatment programme recommended by the health authorities in Norway is a high dose programme. Professor Lianne Woodward from New Zealand urges caution.