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A new test allows physicians to measure the effects of gene silencing therapy in Huntington’s disease and will support the first human clinical trial of a drug that targets the genetic cause of the disease.

Some of the key changes in the aging brain that lead to increased risk of Alzheimer’s Disease have now been identified by a team of researchers.

Psychologists from Cardiff University have developed the first self-assessment test designed to help clinicians diagnose autism in adults.

Published research and common knowledge suggest that embarrassment is something we experience only when we are around other people.

Men’s and women’s ideas of the perfect mate differ significantly due to evolutionary pressures, according to a cross-cultural study on multiple mate preferences by psychologists at The University of…

Poor kidney function was strongly related to decreased blood flow to the brain, report researchers following a population-based study. Poor kidney function was linked to stroke and dementia most strongly in participants with decreased blood flow to the…

Understanding how and why we evolved such large brains is one of the most puzzling issues in the study of human evolution. A new study argues that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion …

Fundamental differences between how the brain forms during adolescence have been discovered in children with schizophrenia and their siblings, a new study shows.

Over 30% of women diagnosed with ovarian cancer survive longer than 10 years, according to a new study, with many of these patients considered high risk of dying from the disease.

The scientific explanation behind the saying “you never get a second chance to make a first impression” has been uncovered by a groundbreaking new study. The work has found, for the first time, that emotions are not only the product of the processing o…