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A new systematic review of current literature on violent video game use has indicated that it is linked to aggressive behavior and decreased empathy.

Giving adolescents the confidence to cook and help prepare meals benefits the entire familyNew research shows that teaching young adolescents practical cooking skills leads to positive changes…

Adolescents who have romantic relationships tend to have more problems with psychosocial adjustment.

Republicans tend to be happier in their marriages than Democrats, and are less likely to be divorced, reveals a new article. The findings add to an ongoing debate over which set of political ideals help to lead people to a happy life, say the investiga…

Areas of the brain associated with social and moral disgust are triggered when healthcare funding is split unequally, researchers have found. The anterior insula is involved in processing humans’ sense of physical disgust — like when we are exposed to…

Patient satisfaction is a very poor proxy for quality of care comparisons in elective cranial neurosurgery. Because deaths are rare events in elective cranial neurosurgery, reporting of surgeon or even department-specific mortality figures cannot diffe…

We may view our memory as being essential to who we are, but new findings suggest that others consider our moral traits to be the core component of our identity.

Special brain mechanism discovered to store stress-related, unconscious memoriesSome stressful experiences – such as chronic childhood abuse – are so overwhelming and traumatic, the memories hide…

Information will help clinicians to assess bilingual children and advise their parentsBilingual children pose unique challenges for clinicians, and, until recently, there was little research on…