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College students may realize that texting in the shower, during sex, or at a funeral is inappropriate, but many do it regardless, according to Penn State psychologists.

A new study takes another step toward the early understanding of a degenerative brain condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, which affects athletes in contact sports who are exposed to repetitive brain injuries. Using a new imaging …

Studying 40 years’ worth of data on rat brains, scientists found that the rat cerebral cortex has hubs and ‘local area networks,’ much like the Internet.

Broken communication in a specific part of the brain plays a role in the involuntary physical movements that affect individuals with Huntington’s disease, researchers have found.

What happens in the moments just before death is widely believed to be a slowdown of the body’s systems as the heart stops beating and blood flow ends. But there’s a brainstorm happening, strongly synchronized with heart rhythm. Blocking this brain out…

Brain activity affects the way the developing brain connects neurons and a new study suggests a new model for understanding that process. “Our study has implications for understanding psychiatric disease and ties into the current conversations about th…

Cocaine-specific disruptions have been seen in a part of the brain circuitry thought to play an important role in arousal regulation, a new study of newborns with prenatal drug exposure finds. “This study may inform new strategies aimed at early risk i…

Multiple sclerosis patients could one day benefit from treatments that boost their brain function, a study suggests. Increasing the activity of neurons could be beneficial in people with the disease, researchers say. It could stimulate the production o…

Why are some people able to master a new skill quickly while others require extra time or practice? Counterintuitive as it may seem, study participants who showed decreased neural activity learned the fastest. The critical distinction was in areas not …

Researchers are studying the neurobiological link between the autism spectrum disorder and epilepsy, in order to understand the reason why the brain of an autistic child is 20-30 percent more susceptible to seizures that an infant without this condition.