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Children with Tourette Syndrome (TS) may unconsciously train their brain to more effectively control their tics. Teenagers diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome (TS) were slower than their typically developing peers when asked to perform a task that involve…

Your measured brain signals can reveal whether you are thinking about an animal or a tool. That’s what neuroscientists discovered during her research, where she investigated the conceptual representation of words and objects in the human brain. This …

Study links traumatic brain injury in adolescents to raised risk of suicide, becoming victims or perpetrators of bullying, and other harmful behavior.

Why can we get up for a piece of chocolate, but never because we fancy a carrot?

Research carried out at the Edinburgh International Science Festival has discovered what people’s preferred sleeping position reveals about their relationships and personality.

There’s no question that mothers want their children to grow up to be good people – but less is known about how they actually help their offspring sort out different types of moral issues.

Antiretroviral therapy (ART), the primary type of treatment for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), can reduce sexual transmission, prevent illness, and increase longevity and quality of life for…

Older people who have apathy – a lack of interest or emotion – are more likely to have less white and gray brain matter than those without apathy, a new study suggests.

Young adults who used marijuana only recreationally showed significant abnormalities in two key brain regions that are important in emotion and motivation, scientists report.

Teenagers who have suffered a traumatic brain injury such as a concussion are at “significantly greater odds” of attempting suicide, being bullied and engaging in a variety of high risk behaviours, a…