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Challenging the longstanding practice of keeping all children with head injuries in the hospital overnight, new research suggests that patients with simple skull fractures can be sent home safely if they have no evidence of brain injury and no neurolog…

A healthy brain is critical to a person’s cognitive abilities, but measuring brain health can be a complicated endeavor. A new study reports that healthy brain metabolism corresponds with fluid intelligence — a measure of one’s ability to solve unusua…

Motivating willingness to change is important in treating a person with severe worry.

Injuries to the spinal cord partially or completely disrupt the neural pathways between the brain and the limbs. The consequences for the representation of the affected limbs in the brain can be drastic. Researchers have now measured how severely this …

Widely referred to as the “love” hormone, oxytocin is an indispensable part of childbirth and emotional mother-child bonding. Psychologists are looking at how breast feeding, oxytocin and face-to-face interactions between a mother and her baby are impa…

Scientists have revealed the brain activity in animals that helps them find food and other vital resources in unfamiliar environments where there are no cues, such as lights and sounds, to guide them.

For heavier individuals, the anticipation of rejection drives down self-esteem and ratchets up stress, say UCSB psychologists.

Researchers have discovered that the benefits of stimulating the brain with direct current come from its effects on astrocytes — not neurons — in the mouse brain. The work shows that applying direct current to the head releases synchronized waves of …

People with Parkinson’s disease are often prescribed antipsychotic drugs for dementia or psychosis, but these drugs may increase the risk of mortality.