The first long-term study of its kind finds that bipolar disorder identified in children often persists into young adulthood and involves frequent, intense swings between manic euphoria and depression.

The family-shattering effects of a mother’s depression can prompt the same mood disorder in her children, independent of any genetic risk. (p. 9)

One-year olds can translate personal experience into knowledge about others

Treatments shown to diminish psychological problems in traumatized youngsters often don’t get used, an exhaustive research review concludes.

A measure of unconscious attitudes predicts the opinions that undecided people eventually reach on a controversial issue.

In new studies, toddlers display dramatic advances in object recognition that may underlie verbal and symbolic achievements.

For preschool boys, being outnumbered by girls at school could be worth the cooties.

Indian survivors of the devastating Asian tsunami employed spiritual and community coping strategies to regain emotional balance