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British parents encourage their children to play musical instruments as part of a family tradition and not to boost their social status as Americans do, research says.

Rehearsing information immediately after being given it may be all you need to make it a permanent memory, a new study suggests. Psychologists found that the same area of the brain activated when laying down a memory is also activated when rehearsing t…

People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have reduced activity of the protein serum and glucocorticoid regulated kinase 1 (SGK1) in their prefrontal cortices, and experimentally reducing the protein’s activity in rats leads to PTSD-like behavi…

Weight and physical activity levels are both factors in a child’s ability to acquire and use knowledge, a new study finds. Children who were lean and active scored better on cognitive tests than either their lean, inactive peers or overweight, inactive…

Fifteen years ago, a study showed that the brains of London cab drivers had an enlargement in the hippocampus, a brain area associated with navigation. But questions remained: Did the experience of navigating London’s complex system of streets change t…

Intrinsic neural connections — called crossmodal mappings — can be used by assistive devices to help the blind detect their environment without requiring intense concentration or hundreds of hours of training. This new multisensory perspective on suc…

A five week treatment with the synthetic hormone oxytocin significantly improved social, emotional and behavioral issues among young children with autism, according to University of Sydney research…

Our brains not only contain learning mechanisms but also forgetting mechanisms that erase “unnecessary” learning. A research has now been able to describe one of these mechanisms at the cellular level.

A five week treatment with the synthetic hormone oxytocin significantly improved social, emotional and behavioral issues among young children with autism, according to new research.

Rutgers study finds women want support — men not so muchHusbands and wives married for a long time don’t look at marital problems in the same way. When a marriage has troubles, women worry.