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Anger can compromise your ability to perform everyday tasks in ways that could be dangerous for you or the people around you.

Research confirms that while raising children, a variety of factors can influence the perception of time, including emotion and attention.

Scientists have shown that anger, anxiety, and depression not only affect the functioning of the heart, but also increase the risk for heart disease. Stroke and heart attacks are the end products of progressive damage to blood vessels supplying the hea…

The psychostimulant drug lisdexamfetamine can aid post-menopausal women by improving attention and concentration, organization, working memory and recall, preliminary evidence from a recent study indicates. The study enrolled 30 women between the ages …

Something — or some things — in the blood of young mice has the ability to restore mental capabilities in old mice, a new study has found. If the same goes for humans, it could spell a new paradigm for recharging our aging brains, and it might mean n…

The brains of children who were born just a few weeks early differ from those born on time, and these differences may affect learning and behavior, according to a new study.

Research may point to ways to reverse some effects of human aging.

A new study says thousands of kids who say they’re the victims of bullying are bringing some kind of weapon to school.

Skilled motor movements of the sort tennis players employ while serving a tennis ball or pianists use in playing a concerto, require precise interactions between the motor cortex and the rest of the brain. Neuroscientists had long assumed that the moto…

Many women coping with infertility count on relatives or close friends for encouragement and assistance.