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A growing list of mass killings highlight the complicated intersection of mental illness and access to guns.

When face-to-face with our failures, it’s hard not to deny the consequences of our shortcomings – and sometimes we make problems worse by engaging in the behaviors we have been trying so hard to…

The list of brain receptor targets for opiates reads like a fraternity: Mu Delta Kappa.

Serious mental illnesses reduce life expectancy by 10-20 years, an analysis by Oxford University psychiatrists has shown – a loss of years that’s equivalent to or worse than that for heavy smoking.

Compared with non-pregnant women, pregnant women rate music as more pleasant and unpleasant, and show greater changes in blood pressure while listening to music.

Blocking a specific class of glutamate receptors can improve motor learning and coordination, and prevent cell death in animal models of Huntington’s disease, research shows. As Huntington’s disease is an inherited condition that can be detected decade…

“Seeing is believing,” so the idiom goes, but new research suggests vision also involves a bit of hearing too. “So, for example, if you are in a street and you hear the sound of an approaching motorbike, you expect to see a motorbike coming around the …

“Aha” moments are rare in medical research, scientists say. As rare, they add, as finding mice with Mohawk-like hairstyles. But both events happened in a lab, months after an international team of neuroscientists bred hundreds of mice with a suspec…

Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder suggest that people are more likely to choose partners with similar DNA – a process they call ‘genetic assortative mating.’