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New research says sexual activity can grow brain cells, but keeping them may be another matter.

School officials are grappling with the best way to offer mental health services in a patchwork, underfunded system.

Blowing up over small things takes a strong physical and emotion toll over the years.

Study shows that training improves cognitive function in older adults and could reduce the number of people experiencing functional impairment.

Americans aged 34 to 46 with children at home rate their life satisfaction at higher levels than those without children at home, according to a report. However, the researchers say that factors such as higher educational attainment, higher income, bett…

Psychology researchers find parents set themselves up for speech errors when they give their children similar-sounding names.

Research found that women dislike promoting their own accomplishments, but it is possible for negative effects to be offset and to improve self-promotion.

Increased awareness of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is placing huge demands on health care systems and health care professionals to help children and their families cope with the disorder. A comprehensive evidence-based review aims to help physicians…

The focus on teenage weight issues tends to center around girls, but boys are not immune to body image pressures. In two new studies, researchers found that teen boys of a healthy weight who think they are too skinny have a higher risk of being depress…

Older adults who received as few as 10 sessions of mental (cognitive) training showed improvements in reasoning ability and speed-of-processing when compared with untrained controls participants as long as 10 years after the intervention. These gains w…