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Overweight young adults may have poorer episodic memory – the ability to recall past events – than their peers, suggests new research from the University of Cambridge, adding to increasing evidence…

About one in five lesbian and four in five bisexual teen girls who are sexually active had a recent male sex partner, according to a new U.S.

A Chapman University psychologist and his interdisciplinary research team have just published a study examining the sexual satisfaction — or dissatisfaction — of heterosexual couples in long-term…

Learn about DMT, the hallucinogenic and psychedelic drug. This article details its effects on the body and the health risks associated with its use.

Everyone has a different mixture of personality traits: some are outgoing, some are tough and some are anxious. A new study suggests that brains also have different traits that affect both anatomical and cognitive factors, such as intelligence and memo…

The antidepressant paroxetine modestly improves decision-making and reaction time, and suppresses inflammation in people with HIV-associated cognitive impairment, physicians report at the conclusion of a small, placebo-controlled clinical trial.

A new optical technique shows how information is transmitted in the brains of mice. Using this method, they found that only a small portion of synapses — the connections between cells that control brain activity — may be active at any given time.

Surprisingly complex interactions between neurotransmitter receptors and other key proteins help explain the brain’s ability to process information with lightning speed, according to a new study. Scientists combined experimental techniques to examine f…

How you perceive and react to stressful events is more important to your health than how frequently you encounter stress, according to health researchers.

Older adults have different, more positive responses than young adults about feelings such as serenity, sadness and loneliness, a new study shows. An author calls the findings ‘highly clinically significant’ because the information could help caregiver…