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We think that we know our long-term partners well, and that we can tell if they’re facing an emotional struggle. But how accurate are we, really?

High-altitude areas — particularly the US intermountain states — have increased rates of suicide and depression, suggests a review of research evidence in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry. The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer.

Researchers found that the fruit fly blood brain barrier has a molecular clock that makes it more or less penetrable during over 24 hours. Giving mutant flies a drug for treating seizures at night was more effective.

Neuroscientists investigate the interaction of visual perception and head movements with functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Doctors caring for severe stroke patients need to take account of their psychological needs and help prepare families for the possibility that they may not recover, a study suggests.

Exposure to psychological stress in the form of social conflict alters gut bacteria in Syrian hamsters, according to a new study.

A new study explores the consequences of distorting the shape of the enclosing box on cognitive maps of space. The results detail how our cognitive maps adapt to changed environments and shed light on how distinct types of neurons may connect to form t…

Scientists have discovered that stress transmitted from others can change the brain in the same way as a real stress does.

Research has shown that the content of newly formed memories can be decoded from brain activity whilst people are asleep.

Scientists have long known that sleep is important to the formation and retention of new memories. Memory consolidation is associated with sudden bursts of oscillatory brain activity, called sleep spindles, which can be visualized and measured on an el…