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Discrimination against overweight and obese people does not help them to lose weight, finds new UCL research funded by Cancer Research UK.

Vulnerable populations in ethnically diverse Toronto reported more discrimination by health care workers based on their housing status, mental health or substance abuse issues than race, a new study…

Young people who regularly attend religious services and describe themselves as religious are less likely to experiment with drugs and alcohol, according to a new study.

What do skipping school, failing tests and engaging in risky sexual behavior have in common?

People struggling with mental illness often turn to pastors for help, but seminaries do very little to train ministers how to recognize serious psychological distress and when to refer someone to a…

A study examining the effect of violent media on the brain finds that individuals with aggressive traits react differently to violent movies compared with non-aggressive people.

Academics are calling for more research to be carried out looking at how the brains of sportspeople — including children — react when they receive a blow to the head.

Employing a measure rarely used in sleep apnea studies, researchers have uncovered evidence of what may be damaging the brain in people with the sleep disorder — weaker brain blood flow.

A new brain map shows how the brain encodes allocentric and egocentric space in different ways during activities that involve manual aiming. The study finding will help healthcare providers to develop therapeutic treatment for patients with brain damag…

With the longstanding debate over whether violent movies cause real world violence as a backstop, a study has found that each person’s reaction to violent images depends on that individual’s brain circuitry, and on how aggressive they were to begin with.