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A new study shows that levels of the stress hormone cortisol plummet in people who take a break from using the popular social network.

A new study demonstrates that people who lose 75 percent of their wealth in 2 years have a higher risk of death over the following decades.

Researchers show for the first time that healthy older men and women can generate just as many new brain cells as younger people.

Researchers have discovered how two brain regions work together to maintain attention, and how discordance between the regions could lead to attention deficit disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression.

Conflict, a death in the family, financial hardship and serious medical crises are all associated with accelerated physical aging. In a new study, researchers found that such negative fateful life events — or FLEs — appear to also specifically accele…

A study has found differences in the brains of athletes who participate in contact sports compared to those who participate in non-contact sports.

One third of children who have autism spectrum disorder also have epilepsy. It’s related to an autism risk gene. But scientists didn’t know why the mutation, catnap2, caused seizures. Now scientists have discovered the mutation shrinks the neurons’ den…

A new study examines how male and female undergraduates in a biology class perceive their own intelligence, compared with that of their peers.

Do you feel like a fraud in your job or feel undeserving of your success? You could have impostor syndrome. Here are some ways to overcome the phenomenon.

When working memory load exceeds capacity, a new study finds, feedback coupling of the prefrontal cortex with other involved regions shuts down.