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Researchers report that fetal mice — especially males — show signs of brain damage that lasts into their adulthood when they are exposed in the womb to a maternal immune system kicked into high gear by a serious infection or other malady. The findi…

Fish that have symmetric brains show defects in processing information about sights and smells, according to the results of a new study into how asymmetry in the brain affects processing of sensory information.

A proposed law in Kansas would block lawsuits or government sanctions against those individuals or businesses who claim to have a strong religious objection to homosexuality.

Victims of prejudice have higher rates of chronic stress, anxiety and depression.

A pilot program will allow three American Indian tribes to arrest and prosecute non-tribal members on suspicion of domestic and dating violence on Indian land.

Psychologists at the University of Jena (Germany) are showing in a new study, that we tend to remember unattractive faces more likely than attractive ones. In the science magazine Neuropsychologia the psychologists write that attractive faces without p…

Mirjana Bajovic of Brock University set out to discover whether there was a link between the types of video games teens played, how long they played them, and the teens’ levels of moral reasoning: their ability to take the perspective of others into ac…

A new study suggests the process of memory rewrites what is stored to bring it in line with new experiences. Writing in The Journal of Neuroscience, researchers describe how they pinpointed the hippocampus as the place where this editing occurs.Lead au…

A new Dartmouth study provides the first evidence that people use the same brain circuitry to figure out space, time and social distances.The findings, which help reveal how our brains organize information and create our perspective of the world, appea…

The capacity of our working memory is better explained by the quality of memories we can store than by their number, a team of psychology researchers has concluded.