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Researchers have pinpointed a mechanism in part of the brain that is key to sensing glucose levels in the blood, linking it to both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

An evolutionarily ancient and tiny part of the brain tracks expectations about nasty events, according to new research. The study demonstrates for the first time that the human habenula, half the size of a pea, tracks predictions about negative events,…

Babies can learn what to fear in the first days of life just by smelling the odor of their distressed mothers’, new research suggests. And not just “natural” fears: If a mother experienced something before pregnancy that made her fear something s…

Aristotle said, “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” Poetic as it is, thinking that you and your partner were made in heaven for each other can hurt your relationship, says a…

The price of learning from rewarding choices may be just a touch of self-delusion, according to a new study in Neuron.

Adolescents in some countries and U.S. states are required to perform community service, and many national and nongovernmental agencies promote such service.

For decades, couples in which a wife had more education than her husband faced a higher risk of divorce than those in which a husband had more education, but a new study finds this is no longer the…

It seems common practice. After a long day at work, sometimes you just want to turn on the TV or play a video game to relax, decompress. This is supposed to make you feel better.

A new study led by the University of California-Irvine, suggests sleep deprivation could lead to false memory formation – the recall of an event that never occurred.

Children who have been abused or neglected early in life are at risk for developing both emotional and physical health problems.