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Do you ever notice how stress and mental frustration can affect your physical abilities? When you are worried about something at work, do you find yourself more exhausted at the end of the day?

Thirty years after the US Congress enacted laws to promote the psychological well-being of primates in laboratories, the problem may be getting worseThousands of nonhuman primates continue to be…

A little recognition for a job well done means a lot to children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) – more so than it would for typically developing kids.

Electric fields affect wing movement, leading to agitation and changes in brain chemistryA new piece of research led by the University of Southampton has found that the behaviour of fruit flies…

An intention to quit smoking may be less important than targeting self-control mechanisms, according to experts who have reviewed the evidence.

Numerous genes that regulate the activity of a neurotransmitter in the brain have been found to be abundant in brain tissue of depressed females. This could be an underlying cause of the higher incidence of suicide among women, according to research.

Do you ever notice how stress and mental frustration can affect your physical abilities? When you are worried about something at work, do you find yourself more exhausted at the end of the day? This phenomenon is a result of the activation of a specifi…

A new imaging tool could do for the brain what the telescope did for space exploration. In the first demonstration of how the technology works, the researchers look inside the brain of an adult mouse at a scale previously unachievable, generating image…