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Maybe narcissists aren’t always such big risk-takers after all, a new study suggests.

Whether it’s resisting buying a candy bar in the checkout lane or purchasing an unneeded pair of shoes on sale at the mall, self-control varies from person to person.

Neuroscientists can’t build a brain, so they have settled with reverse engineering–learning a lot about each part in hopes that they can understand how all of the pieces fit together.

By drawing on seismology, researchers have just developed a noninvasive brain imaging method using MRI that provides the same information as physical palpation. They say that it may be possible to use this procedure in medical diagnosis.

Neuroscientists can’t build a brain, so they have settled with reverse engineering — learning a lot about each part in hopes that they can understand how all of the pieces fit together. Researchers are presenting integrated theories on how processes -…

Researchers at the University of Jaume I (UJI) developed a model that represents an important advance toward understanding the brain mechanisms that trigger aggression.

Research has found that bariatric surgery can increase risks for self-harm and suicide in some morbidly obese patients, suggesting a need to review counseling procedures.

Women who served in Vietnam have higher odds of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than women stationed during that era in the United States, and this effect appears to be associated with wartime…

The way our brain responds to others’ good fortune is linked to how empathetic people report themselves to be, according to new research. They study shows that a part of the brain called the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) seems particularly attuned to…

Most female mammals give birth and care for their offspring, while the males often breed with multiple partners and play little role in parenting once the mating is over. Yet researchers have had a hard time pinpointing where, exactly, in the brain the…