When you’re anxious or stressed, do you find yourself biting your nails or chewing the inside of your cheek? Or maybe when you’re trying to stay focused in a meeting, you shake your leg under the desk ...

The US Food and Drug Administration is again proposing a ban on electrical stimulation devices used to reduce or stop self-injurious or aggressive behavior, the agency said in a statement Monday.

For the first time, researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities showed that non-invasive brain stimulation can change a specific brain mechanism that is directly related to human behavior.

A research team led in part by two BBRF grantees has reported initial success in using a novel, highly personalized, and technologically advanced treatment approach to relieve symptoms in a single ...

Severe self-injurious behavior in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) poses a significant risk of permanent physical injury. Not all children respond to behavioral therapies. Findings from a ...

Study overview. (A) CONSORT diagram of participant recruitment and disposition; (B) Study timeline and procedures; (C) Electrode localization within the core (light blue) and shell (dark blue) of the ...

A small pilot suggests deep brain stimulation may reshape dysfunctional brain circuits to curb severe self-harming behavior ...

Recently, I had reason to consider the field of environmental psychology from the perspective of someone interested in a slightly different discipline – one closer to zoology, or biology in general. I ...