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There is an urgent need to do more to recognize prenatal alcohol exposure at an early stage and to integrate better pathways for diagnosis, assessment and support. The importance of raising awareness of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders is the focus of …

Few visual impressions can be compared to humans’ interest for faces. New research suggests that our brain rewards us for looking at pretty faces.

A state-of-the-art open-source tool captures fine details of locomotion and offers new insights onto the neural basis of balance and coordination, report developers. Using LocoMouse, the researchers analyzed locomotion in mice with cerebellar degenerat…

An innovative high school health program helped students maintain healthier weights and even alleviated severe depression for a full year after the program ended.

Negative body image significantly increases the risk of obesity regardless of whether youth have depression, according to researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston…

Some nerve cells in the inner ear can signal tissue damage in a way similar to pain-sensing nerve cells in the body, according to new research. If the finding, discovered in rats, is confirmed in humans, it may lead to new insights into hyperacusis, an…

Glioblastoma is the most malignant type of brain cancer. Scientists have now reported that glioblastoma cells are connected to each other by long cellular extensions. The cancer cells use this network for communication, thus protecting themselves from …

The thickness of the cortex in a region of the brain that specializes in facial recognition can predict an individual’s ability to recognize faces and other objects.

New study shows that emotions spread like a virus through Twitter; some people are more susceptible than others to this ‘emotional contagion;’ positive emotions are much more contagious than negative ones.

Stem cells from adult schizophrenia patients form new proteins more slowly than those from healthy people, according to new research. The findings are enhancing understanding of how schizophrenia affects the workings of the brain, and open the way to n…