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An annual physical typically involves a weight check and questions about unhealthy habits like smoking, but a new study suggests health care providers may be overlooking a critical question: Are you depressed or anxious?

Researchers found that gently stroking a baby seems to reduce activity in the infant brain associated with painful experiences. Their results suggest that lightly brushing an infant at a certain speed — of approximately 3 centimeters per second — cou…

Researchers are proposing a new model to explain how neural networks in different brain areas communicate with each other.

Researchers found that excitatory neurons — those that are more likely to trigger an action (as opposed to inhibitory neurons, which are less likely to prompt neural activity) — are more vulnerable to accumulations of abnormal tau protein, which is i…

In a study of adolescent mice with a version of a gene linked to serious human mental illnesses, researchers say they have uncovered a possible explanation for how marijuana may damage the brains of some human teens.

In an unusual experiment, researchers demonstrate that the duration of a blink during conversation can influence the length of someone’s answer.

Neuroscientists have used data from the human brain connectome — a publicly available ‘wiring diagram’ of the human brain based on data from thousands of healthy human volunteers — to reassess the findings from neuroimaging studies of patients with A…

Researchers have uncovered a microRNA cluster that regulates synaptic strength and is involved in the control of social behavior in mammals. The researchers presume that their discovery may point to new therapeutic strategies for the treatment of socia…

New research shows that in older people living in the community, type 2 diabetes is associated with a decline in verbal memory and fluency over five years.