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A new study conducted by the University of Warwick links being born premature with low wages.

In her hit single, Carly Rae Jepsen may have sung, “Here’s my number, so call me maybe.

What makes someone better at switching between different tasks? Looking for the mechanisms behind cognitive flexibility, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Germany’s Central…

Scientists have developed a potentially promising new combination therapy for glioblastoma, the deadliest form of brain cancer. Glioblastoma, also known as grade IV glioma, is the most aggressive primary brain tumor in humans. Approximately 23,000 peop…

By studying networks of activity in the brain’s frontal cortex, researchers have shown that the degree to which these networks reconfigure themselves while switching from task to task predicts people’s cognitive flexibility.

A gene linked in previous research, appears to predict more severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms as well as a thinner cortex in regions of the brain critical for regulating strong emotions and coping with stressful experiences. This st…

Researchers using fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) have found that even first-episodepsychotic* patients process information differently from a control group.

People with hostile personality traits who watch more television than their peers may be at a greater risk for injury, potentially because they are more susceptible to the influence of television…