Neuroscience

Stimulating the brain via electricity or other means may help to ease the symptoms of various neurological and psychiatric disorders,...

Bilingual education programs, in which a substantial part of the teaching is done in a language different from the mother...

Heavy drinking can lead to neurophysiological and cognitive changes ranging from disrupted sleep to more serious neurotoxic effects. Aging can...

Those with a taste for adult education classes have long known it, but now Oxford University scientists have confirmed that...

Everyone knows that tobacco products are bad for your health, and even the new e-cigarettes may have harmful toxins. However,...

The peptide amyloid beta plays a role in Alzheimer’s disease. Now new research from Washington University in St. Louis shows...

The researchers could watch in a top-down view the 36 participants passing through a bottleneck during a simple evacuation situation....

Exposure to bright light increases testosterone levels and leads to greater sexual satisfaction in men with low sexual desire. These...

A new survey of internet users suggests that people who use the internet excessively may have more mental health problems....

A study led by researchers from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Pitt...

Credits: WikimediaResearchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have discovered a key mechanism that explains how compounds they’re developing can suppress...

Prof. Bernd Kuhn, Dr. Akihiro Funamizu and Prof. Kenji Doya. Credit: Image courtesy of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology...

Human babies and even animals have a basic number sense that many believe evolves from seeing the world and trying...

Korean researchers show how our brain activates self-destruct mechanisms when it is low on energy to regulate appetite. Researchers from...