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Feeling sad can alter levels of stress-related opioids in the brain and increase levels of inflammatory proteins in the blood that are linked to increased risk of comorbid diseases including heart disease, stroke and metabolic syndrome, according to a …

The brains of children who suffer clinical depression as preschoolers develop abnormally, compared with the brains of preschoolers unaffected by the disorder, according to new research. Their gray matter is lower in volume and thinner in the cortex, a …

Allowing your four-legged companion to sleep in your bed may help you sleep by offering a sense of companionship, security and relaxation, finds a Mayo Clinic study.

Evidence of autism may be found in the composition and malfunction of the brain’s blood vessels, a team of scientists has found. Their research sheds new light on the causes of autism, which previously had pointed to neurological make-up rather than to…

Eye contact synchronizes brain activation to establish connection between individuals; without this, shared attention cannot be attained, new research confirms.

People vary according to different personality traits, such as extraversion or conscientiousness, and new research suggests that they also vary according to a particular cognitive trait…

An activator has proved a capacity to generate an important increase in neurogenesis, and represents a first step for future medicine for patients suffering from certain neurology diseases, say scientists.

In expanding our knowledge of how the brain controls the process of sexual development, researchers have identified, for the first time, members of an elaborate superfamily of genes that regulate the timing of puberty in highly evolved nonhuman primates.

The threat of ostracism influences children to imitate group behaviors as a means of re-affiliating, according to psychologists at The University of Texas at Austin.

Family breakdown and the insecure financial situation that may result is more likely to cause worry, anxiety and depressive symptoms in adolescents who are separated from their father, says…