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Researchers have uncovered evidence suggesting that sleep loss can make us want to avoid social contact, while also sending a ‘keep away’ signal to others.

Choosing to forget something might take more mental effort than trying to remember it, researchers discovered through neuroimaging.

With a weak alternating electrical current sent through electrodes attached to the scalp, researchers successfully targeted a naturally occurring electrical pattern in a specific part of the brain and markedly improved depression symptoms in about 70 p…

During the first 24 hours, home and leisure activities may be undertaken as long as they are only for five minutes at a time, and stopped if symptoms increase. The guidelines give pathways for three categories of concussions: for those who are symptom …

Researchers have found that adolescent binge drinking, even if discontinued, increases the risk for anxiety later in life due to abnormal epigenetic programming.

Researchers are one step closer to helping answer the question of why autism is four times more common in boys than in girls after identifying and characterizing the connection of certain proteins in the brain to autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

A study of more than 200 people suggests the loss of blood vessels in the retina could signal Alzheimer’s disease.

Factors that influence the health of our blood vessels, such as smoking, high blood and pulse pressures, obesity and diabetes, are linked to less healthy brains. The strongest links are with areas of the brain known to be responsible for our more compl…

What changes in the brain are caused by Alzheimer’s disease? How do these changes differ from those observed in the normal ageing process? Researchers explored these questions by analyzing over 4,000 MRI scans of healthy and diseased brains using the ‘…