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A complex relationship between genes, hormones and social factors can lead to eating disorders in women.

If you can’t tell a smile from a scowl, you’re probably not getting enough sleep.A new UC Berkeley study shows that sleep deprivation dulls our ability to accurately read facial expressions.

A new study finds that adults who had psychiatric problems as children are at greater risk of health, legal, financial and social problems.

Alzheimer’s disease may cause different changes in the brain, or pathologies, in African-Americans than in white Americans of European descent, according to a new study.

A new discovery has potential to help brain and breast cancer patients, scientists suggest. The researchers examined compounds that inhibit Stat3, a protein implicated in a variety of cancers that include brain and breast cancers.

Scientists have uncovered how mutations in a specific autism risk gene alter the basic trajectory of early brain development in animal models.

Key parts of the human brain network that give us the power to control and redirect our attention — a core cognitive ability — may be unique to humans, researchers have discovered.

New research provides the first direct evidence linking traumatic brain injury to Alzheimer’s disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) — and offers the potential for early intervention to prevent the development of these debilitating neurode…