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Study shows inflammation is caused by an overactive immune response.

A learning technique that maximizes the brain’s ability to make and store memories may help overcome cognitive issues seen in fragile X syndrome, a leading form of intellectual disability, according to neurobiologists.

Timing is key for brain cells controlling a complex motor activity like the singing of a bird, finds a new study. The findings are the first to suggest that fine-scale timing of neurons is at least as important in motor systems as in sensory systems, a…

The cognitive effects of poverty can be mitigated during middle school with a targeted intervention, according to researchers who, for the first time, examined the efficacy of cognitive training in a large and diverse group of 7th and 8th grade public …

New information suggests the brain responds differently to different sugars, and that one type could be connected with overeating. Brain responses to fructose, a simple sugar contained in high-fructose corn syrup, produced activation in the brain’s ‘re…

The potential of focused ultrasound to treat certain patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been supported by new research. “There is a need for non-invasive treatment options for patients with OCD that cannot be managed through medicati…

U professor Eric Garland developed Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery-Enhancement to change the face of intervention and treatment for drug abusers.

With so much focus on risk factors for disease, we are living in an era of surveillance medicine, in which the emphasis on risk blurs the lines between health and illness, argue researchers at Yale…

A new study challenges the idea that distraction is necessarily a problem for learning. Researchers found that if attention was as divided during recall of a motor task as it was during learning the task, people performed as if there were no distractio…