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Parents have long told their children to mind their Ps and Qs, and remember to say thank you. Now the evidence is in on why it matters.

“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one,” sang John Lennon in his 1971 song Imagine.

Until the last few decades, the frontal lobes of the brain were shrouded in mystery and erroneously thought of as nonessential for normal function – hence the frequent use of lobotomies in the early…

People aged 70 and over who identify themselves as ‘old’ feel worse about their own health in societies where they perceive they have lower value than younger age groups.

Required online classes for divorcing couples who have children are good at teaching parents how to deal with children’s needs and responses to their family’s new situation.

Dyslexia, the most commonly diagnosed learning disability in the United States, is a neurological reading disability that occurs when the regions of the brain that process written language don’t…

Patients with damage to a brain region called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex are more likely to favor selfish decisions over fairer ones, reports a study published this week in Nature…

A study by researchers from Baylor University in Texas finds that college students spend around 9 hours a day on their cell phones, and 60% say they are becoming addicted to them.

A new study opens the door towards better understanding of the neural circuitry and dynamic mechanisms controlling memory as well of the role of an essential element of the hippocampus — a sub-region named the subiculum.