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Americans were found to be happier in states with higher wealth inequality when they had people of similar backgrounds — some richer, some poorer — to compare themselves with.

A large study of children has uncovered evidence that behavioral problems in children who snore may be associated with changes in the structure of their brain’s frontal lobe. The findings support early evaluation of children with habitual snoring (snor…

A new study linking spanking and child brain development shows spanking could alter a child’s neural responses to their environment, in similar ways to a child experiencing more severe violence.

A shared set of systems in the brain may play an important role in controlling the retrieval of facts and personal memories utilized in everyday life, new research shows. Scientists say their findings may have relevance to memory disorders, including d…

A unique residential study has concluded that, contrary to perceived wisdom, people with eating disorders do not lose self-control – leading to binge-eating – in response to stress.

Bisphenols contained in many everyday objects can impair important brain functions in humans, biologists warn. Their study shows that even small amounts of the plasticizers bisphenol A and bisphenol S disrupt the transmission of signals between nerve c…

Many women ‘risk’ allowing natural grey hair to show in order to feel authentic, a new study shows.

Loss of the ability to experience pleasure – or anhedonia – has been revealed as a key feature in frontotemporal dementia, in contrast to Alzheimer’s disease. The findings from brain scans, believed to be a first, show grey matter deterioration in the …

The network of nerves connecting our eyes to our brains is sophisticated and researchers have now shown that it evolved much earlier than previously thought, thanks to an unexpected source: the gar fish.

For nearly a decade, scientists have relied on an MRI-based map, or atlas, of the pig brain – developed using 4-week-old pigs – to understand where and how nutrients and other interventions affect the developing brain. Now, scientists have updated that…