Neuroscientists at Northeastern are using rats to understand how trauma in infancy makes children, but especially girls, more likely to develop anxiety and other similar disorders later in life.

The 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list features has included six Northeastern researchers who rank in in the top 1 percent by citations in their fields between 2006 and 2016.

Many scientists agree that, although the brain can grow and develop, specific parts are meant only for specific functions, says Northeastern professor Craig Ferris. What if there were an animal that proved them wrong? I smell a rat.

Anxiety and depression in teens can go undetected for too long, says Northeastern psychology professor Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli. Her team is using brain imaging during childhood to spot early symptoms of mental illness.

The more hydrated children are, the faster their reaction times and the better they are able to multitask, a new study co-authored by Northeastern professor Charles Hillman has found.

We all know fear. But so far, what happens inside the human brain during scary situations is still a big mystery. 

What’s preventing people from accepting that knowledge can be innate is itself innate.

Jesse Greif earned his B.S. in psychology at Northeastern. He now is an executive on Wall Street at OneChronos Markets, a new Alternative Trading System that uses AI and Machine Learning to facilitate stock trading.

Samantha Goldman's experience leading group therapy taught her more than any textbook ever could. It also lead to her co-authoring a paper in the Spring 2019 volume of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society Journal.

David DeSteno and Daniel Lim found that people are more likely to feel compassion in the face of mass suffering if they believe they can make a difference. Compassion, it seems, is a skill you can strengthen, which is great news for society in general.