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Children who are bullies or have conduct problems at school, are more likely to be sleepy during the day according to University of Michigan Medical School researchers…

Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) reported that it has identified compounds that interact with orphan G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) GPR27 and GPR173…

Improving self-esteem is a common reason to have cosmetic surgery, but does it really deliver? Four decades of scientific studies have confirmed that the vast majority of patients are satisfied with their results. Less studied, however, are the psychological effects of those cosmetic procedures. While people who have cosmetic surgery seek positive physical changes, they may also want more…

Improving self-esteem is a common reason to have cosmetic surgery, but does it really deliver? Four decades of scientific studies have confirmed that the vast majority of patients are satisfied with their results. Less studied, however, are the psychological effects of those cosmetic procedures. While people who have cosmetic surgery seek positive physical changes, they may also want more…

New research has suggested people with significant mental illness may not be receiving the care they need after a heart attack. Researchers from the University of Leicester compared the care given to those with and without serious mental disorders and found the number of mentally ill people who died of acute coronary events, like a heart attack, was higher than expected…

Long-term relationships make the commonly abused drug amphetamine less appealing, according to a new animal study. The findings suggest that social bonds formed during adulthood lead to changes in the brain that may protect against drug abuse.

Children who are bullies or have conduct problems at school, are more likely to be sleepy during the day according to researchers.

Researchers have demonstrated that oral administration of a cysteine protease inhibitor, E64d, not only reduces the build-up of beta-amyloid in the brains of animal models for Alzheimer’s disease, but also results in a substantial improvement in memory deficit.

Until now, scientists believed that only a couple of brain areas mediate facial recognition. However scientists have discovered that an entire network of cortical areas work together to identify faces. These findings will change the future of neural visual perception research and allow scientists to use this discovery to develop targeted remedies for disorders such as face blindness.

There are many complicated theories on how the brain processes more than one language, but one researcher has found that how words sound provides enough information to distinguish which language a word belongs to.