Life imitates art. The famous 1983 hit song "99 Red Balloons" by Nena is about a cluster of party balloons being mistaken for enemy aircraft and provoking a nuclear war. Earlier this week, Secretary ...

Could complex beliefs like paranoia have roots in something as basic as vision? A new Yale study finds evidence that they might. When completing a visual perception task, in which participants had to ...

People who start using cannabis to cope with physical or mental health problems are more likely to experience severe paranoia, a new study has found. Many of these people also report depression and ...

New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London, in partnership with the University of Bath, has found that the reasons why a person chooses ...