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Anyone who has tried to learn a second language knows how difficult it is to absorb new words and use them to accurately express ideas in a completely new cultural format. Now, research into some of the fundamental ways the brain accepts information an…

Scientists have discovered that as the brain re-organizes connections throughout our life, the process begins earlier in girls which may explain why they mature faster during the teenage years.

People — even non-religious people — make the moral judgment that suicide is wrong not because of any specific harm related to the act, but because they believe it taints the purity of a person’s soul, according to a report.

New imaging research has demonstrated that a magnetic resonance imaging approach called quantitative susceptibility mapping can be an important tool for diagnosing and tracking the progression of Multiple Sclerosis and other neurological diseases.

A new study showing that feeding mice a beneficial type of bacteria can ameliorate autism-like symptoms is “groundbreaking,” according to a commentary piece about the research.

College campuses around the country are bringing in dogs to help stressed students.

A new study by neuroscientists is the first to directly compare brain responses to faces and objects with responses to colors. The paper reveals new information about how the brain’s inferior temporal (IT) cortex processes information.

A study conducted investigates the origins of the difficulty recognizing certain emotions that affects patients with Parkinson’s disease. Is this impairment caused by the disease itself or is it in part the consequence of a widely used treatment (dee…

Many parents say when their second child is born that their first child suddenly appears to have grown overnight. Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology have an explanation: until the birth of the new child, those parents …

Does everybody lie? We are taught that this is common sense and that most people tell little white lies. But perhaps this isn’t true. A recent paper published in Human Communication Research found that many people are honest most of the time, that many…