The capacity to adjust beliefs about one’s actions and their consequences in a constantly changing environment is a defining characteristic of advanced cognition. Disruptions to this ability, however, ...

Could complex beliefs like paranoia have roots in something as basic as vision? A new Yale study finds evidence that they ...

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Each time a public figure dies unexpectedly from a brain aneurysm, not only is the news upsetting and jarring, but it is also nearly impossible not to feel somewhat paranoid. After all, this fatal ...

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Treatment with Virtual Reality appears to work very well for people with psychosis. It works faster than the current ...

While past studies have implicated some brain regions in paranoia, the understanding of paranoia’s neural underpinnings remains limited. For the new study, the Yale researchers analyzed existing data ...