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A new study in marmoset monkeys suggests that individual variation in genes alters our ability to regulate emotions, providing new insights that could help in the development of personaliszd therapies to tackle anxiety and depression.

People of all ages tend to misjudge the strength of other people’s emotions based on an egocentric bias, according to a new study.

If you want your friend to see you in a crowd, you wave your arms to stand out. As University of Rochester researchers found, one reason why this works is that the brain suppresses the background, allowing the person to focus on the moving object in fr…

A newly devised test shows that people with multiple coexisting conditions have a higher risk of fast cognitive decline and dying by suicide.

Researchers have created a method for two people to help a third person solve a task using only their minds.

Researchers have identified a network of brain regions that work together to determine if a robot is a worthy social partner, according to a new study.

A research team has found that electronic cigarettes, often targeted to youth and pregnant women, produce a stress response in neural stem cells, which are critical cells in the brain.

Synapses in the hippocampus are larger and stronger after sleep deprivation, according to new research. Overall, this study supports the idea that sleep may universally weaken synapses that are strengthened from learning, allowing for new learning to o…

Scientists have identified mechanisms in the human brain that could help explain the phenomenon of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ — the unsettling feeling we get from robots and virtual agents that are too human-like. They have also shown that some people respo…

A number of studies have assessed the relationship between social interaction and dementia; the latest adds to the increasingly complex picture.