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A new study investigates whether psychopathic traits really do enhance your career prospects. Along the way, it uncovers an interesting sex difference.

Stiffness of the aorta — more so than blood pressure or subclinical brain disease — is a key risk factor for dementia. Since aortic stiffness can be reduced by medication and healthy lifestyle changes, these results suggest that people can still lowe…

Researchers looked at the mechanisms involved in language learning among nine-month-olds, the youngest population known to be studied in relation to on-screen learning.

Scientists describe how non-invasive brain stimulation — a technique he and others have pioneered to unlock the secrets of the brain — could shed light on the neurobiology underlying implicit bias.

Cesarean-born mice show altered patterns of cell death across the brain, exhibiting greater nerve cell death than vaginally delivered mice in at least one brain area, a finding that suggests birth mode may have acute effects on human neurodevelopment t…

A team has developed an antibody that blocks the inflammatory and oxidative activity of fibrin, which contributes to neurodegeneration in the brain, without compromising the protein’s clotting function.

Experimental results suggest that dogs have at least a rudimentary neural representation of meaning for words they have been taught, differentiating words they have heard before from those they have not.

A new study of female high school soccer players suggests that a neck collar may help protect the brain from head impacts over the course of a competitive soccer season.

Only a small proportion of cases of dementia are thought to be inherited — the cause of the vast majority is unknown. Now a team of scientists believe they may have found an explanation: spontaneous errors in our DNA that arise as cells divide and rep…

The first literature review and meta-analysis to investigate omega-3 supplements and anxiety concludes that they could benefit some people.