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Researchers have, for the first time, pinpointed areas of the brain — the inferior lateral prefrontal cortex and frontopolar cortex — that seem to serve as an “arbitrator” between two decision-making systems, weighing the reliability of the predictio…

Call it the Ray Charles Effect: a young child who is blind learns to hear things others cannot. Researchers know that young brains are malleable enough to re-wire some circuits that process sensory information. Now researchers have shown the brains of …

Higher mammals, such as humans, have markedly larger brains than other mammals. Scientists recently discovered a new mechanism governing brain stem cell proliferation. It serves to boost the production of neurons during development, thus causing the en…

In these modern times, it can be hard to prise away teenagers from the clutches of TV or video games. Now, new research suggests that high media use, combined with low physical activity and lack of sleep, may increase the risk of mental illness for ado…

Changing the way people think about and deal with schizophrenia is a moderately effective treatment, say researchers.

An ‘insecure’ parenting style in which parents dismiss their kids’ emotions may steer children towards eating for comfort, which can lead to obesity.

Study shows how memory is built to change.

Three organizations will combine their efforts to look at common factors involved in diseases of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Justice blindly trusts human memory. Every year throughout the world hundreds of thousands of court cases are heard based solely on the testimony of somebody who swears that they are reproducing exactly an event that they witnessed in a (more or less) …

From birth, infants naturally show a preference for human contact and interaction, including faces and voices. These basic predispositions to social stimuli are altered in individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).