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In The BMJ this week, experts discuss whether hospitals should ban smoking for psychiatric patients outside as well as indoors.

Animals navigate by calculating their current position based on how long and how far they have traveled and a new study on treadmill-running rats reveals how: neurons called grid cells integrate information about time and distance to support memory and…

Unwanted formation of blood vessels (angiogenesis) in the brain is likely to be the cause of intractable walking and balance difficulties for people who suffer from Parkinson’s disease. This conclusion is supported by new research.

Approximately 50 percent of the people involved in the study said they could not confirm which one was the robot.

In what has been described as ‘doping for lazy people’ a University of Kent endurance expert has advocated the use of psychoactive drugs to encourage sedentary people to exercise.

“Mom! He splashed me on purpose!” “No I didn’t – it was an accident!” Arguments over whether one sibling intended to harm another are a common soundtrack for parents with more than one kid.

New research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) suggests that cheerleading has the potential to challenge traditional ideas about gender and to be an inclusive activity for both boys and girls.

Recommendation that doctors screen patients for food insecurity.It may come as a surprise that, even after the Great Recession ended in 2009, almost 50 million people in the United States are food…

Neurophysiological evidence for human empathy toward robots in perceived painEmpathy is a basic human ability. We often feel empathy toward and console others in distress.

Platinum-based chemotherapy may not only impact hearing, but that the hearing loss may then contribute to long-term neurocognitive deficits, report neuroscientists in a new report.