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A new study suggests there may be a starting point at which blows to the head or other head trauma suffered in combat sports start to affect memory and thinking abilities and can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, in the brain.

What’s the group that least agrees with Americans’ vision of their country? According to many sociological surveys, it’s atheists. Previous research suggests that the dislike of atheists mostly comes from distrust, driven by the belief that people act …

Neuroscientists have proposed the first neurobiological model for third-party punishment. It outlines a collection of potential cognitive and brain processes that evolutionary pressures could have re-purposed to make this behavior possible.

The longstanding mystery of how selective hearing works — how people can tune in to a single speaker while tuning out their crowded, noisy environs — has just been solved. Psychologists have known for decades about the so-called “cocktail party effec…

Over-30s can benefit from being nagged, nudged and cajoled by family and friends into being more active, according to new sport psychology research.

April 18, 2012 Jack Hanke, 18, arrived at rehearsal wearing a giant sombrero and green kimono. Noah Britton, 29, took off his pants midpractice, explaining that they still stank from last night’s concert. He ran through the rest of his comedy troupe’s…

Alcohol expectancy challenges, or social experiments aimed at challenging one’s beliefs about the rewards of drinking, can successfully reduce both the quantity of alcohol consumed and the frequency of heavy or binge drinking among college students.

Biologists have demonstrated that the division of labor among honeybees is correlated with the presence in their brains of tiny snippets of noncoding RNA, called micro-RNAs, or miRNAs, that suppress the expression of genes.

Practices like physical exercise, certain forms of psychological counseling and meditation can all change brains for the better, and these changes can be measured with the tools of modern neuroscience, according to a new review article.

Harvard researchers suggest optimism, happiness and other positive emotions may help protect heart health and lower the risk of heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular events. It also appears that these psychological well-being factors slow th…