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People with early-stage dementia benefit when they are empowered to manage their own condition, a study led by researchers at the University of Exeter has found.

More than 90% of meals from 123 restaurants assessed in a new study were served in oversized quantities that exceeded the recommended calorie intake, researchers found.

If you are planning on learning a second language, the connectivity of your brain at rest might predict how easy, or how difficult, you find it.

The social brain hypothesis, that friendship groups are consistently sized as a consequence of cognitive limits, is not trumped by the opportunity to ‘friend’ an unlimited number of people on social media, new media suggests.

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The first direct evidence showing how the vestibular system’s horizontal canals play a key role in sensing our direction in the environment has been uncovered by scientists.

Overactive microglia—the brain’s immune cells—may worsen the damage from brain injury after stroke or head impact. A new study reports that a compound produced from estrogen called 2-methoxyestradiol calms overactive microglia. The findings offer…

There is good news for frequent public speakers. New research shows that individuals have the ability to quickly and accurately identify a crowd’s general emotion as focused or distracted, suggesting that we can trust our first impression of a crowd’s …

People experiencing anxiety and inhibition have more activity in the right side of the brain, causing them to walk in a leftward trajectory. New research has, for the first time, linked the activation of the brain’s two hemispheres with lateral shifts …