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A new long-term study finds that people who had a heart attack or angina may be twice as likely to die if they also have depression.

Up to 20 percent of U.S. veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan developed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder from trauma experienced during wartime, but new neuroscience research from…

The link between playing violent video games and antisocial behavior, such as increased aggression and decreased empathy, is hotly debated.

A computer-based environment has been developed with the aim to shed light on the origins of altruism. This new study immersed participants in a virtual environment that reproduced a building on fire which they had to evacuate in a hurry, deciding whet…

The ability to perform astonishing feats of memory, such as remembering lists of several dozen words, can be learned, researchers report. After 40 days using a strategic memory improvement technique, individuals who had typical memory skills at the sta…

Networks consist of many types of neurons, including some that send excitatory signals, increasing the likelihood of other neurons firing, and some that send inhibitory signals, decreasing the likelihood of other neurons firing. Researchers have now d…

A relationship between epilepsy and heightened religious experiences has been recognized since at least the 19th century. In a recent study, researchers found a neurological relationship exists between religiosity — a disposition for spiritual experie…

Researchers have reversed depression symptoms in mice by feeding them Lactobacillus, a probiotic bacteria found in live-cultures yogurt. Further, they have discovered a specific mechanism for how the bacteria affect mood, providing a direct link betwee…

Treatment with the diabetes drug amylin (or pramlintide) safely improves learning and memory function in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients and reduces the AD pathology in their brains. The findings also may lead to the development of a blood test for AD.