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In a first-of-its-kind study, an international team of neuroscientists and robotics engineers has demonstrated the viability of direct brain-to-brain communication in humans.

Research shows that there is something intrinsically unpleasant about anticipating the purchase of a material good, which may put shoppers on edge and help create the conditions for violence.

Since the introduction of the combination anti-retroviral therapy (cART) in the mid-90s, the life expectancy of HIV patients has significantly improved. As a result, long-term complications are becoming more relevant: almost every second HIV patient is…

A new study, led by researchers at the University of Warwick in the UK and the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany, and just published in the Journal Early Human Development, has found that both the…

A study published in the September 2014 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that children and adolescents diagnosed with a psychiatric diagnosis…

Participants in an innovative Washington State University study of deadly force were more likely to feel threatened in scenarios involving black people.

The study found that for high school seniors, alcohol consumption led to unsafe driving and compromised relationships with peers, while marijuana consumption was found to compromise relationships…

A new theory has been offered suggesting that an early-life injury to the cerebellum disrupts the brain’s processing of external and internal information and leads to ‘developmental diaschisis,’ wherein a loss of function in one brain region leads to p…

Life at opposite ends of primate social hierarchies is linked to specific brain networks, research in macaque monkeys has shown. The more dominant you are, the bigger some brain regions are. If your social position is more subordinate, other brain regi…

What’s the price on your integrity? Tell the truth; everyone has a tipping point. We all want to be honest, but at some point, we’ll lie if the benefit is great enough. Now, scientists have confirmed the area of the brain in which we make that decision…