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A new survey of North Carolina doctors finds that many are concerned about the increasing number of requests they are receiving to assess their patients’ competency to carry concealed weapons.

UT Arlington researchers have successfully used a portable brain-mapping device to show limited prefrontal cortex activity among student veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder when they were…

The number of deaths involving commonly prescribed painkillers is higher than the number of deaths by overdose from heroin and cocaine combined, according to researchers at McGill University.

A moral story that praises a character’s honesty is more effective at getting young children to tell the truth than a story that emphasizes the negative repercussions of lying, according to research…

Though the term ‘Internet addiction disorder’ was coined 20 years ago, professionals are still divided on whether excessive technology use can be considered an ‘addiction.’

Neurosurgeons have implanted a new type of electrical stimulator to control seizures in patients with difficult-to-control epilepsy called a responsive neurostimulator. It marked the first time in the Southeast United States that the RNS system by Neur…

Parents of children with autism may be concerned about having another child with autism, or may not have the resources to care for more children.

Researchers struggle to recruit volunteers for promising drug to treat widely-feared disease.

Research found that young children who spend more time engaging in more open-ended, free-flowing activities display higher levels of executive functioning.

Biologists have long considered cells to function like self-cleaning ovens, chewing up and recycling their own worn out parts as needed. But a new study shows that some nerve cells found in the eye pass off their old energy-producing factories to neigh…