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EMBL scientists identify the physical connection through which the prefrontal cortex inhibits instinctive behaviour.

Exploiting the placebo effect significantly improved the recovery of patients undergoing heart surgery according to new research published in the open access journal BMC Medicine.

A new model to predict when people are most likely to try different products has been developed by scientists at UCL and dunnhumby, a customer science company.

Even if they believe they could be punished, older kids are more likely than younger children to view confessing to a misdeed as the right thing to do.

The pediatric brain responds negatively to traumatic brain injury treatment that targets inflammation, new research suggests.

Scientists have discovered a molecular pathway in the brain that may help provide answers to long-term memory problems in the elderly and aid researchers in identifying drug-based therapies to prevent dementia.

Cells in the brain responsible for detecting and fixing minor damage renew themselves more quickly than previously thought, new research has shown.

Inhibiting a DNA-repairing protein in brain could be key to treating aggressive tumors, say researchers.

The difference between an old brain and a young brain isn’t so much the number of neurons but the presence and function of supporting cells called glia. In a new article, researchers who examined postmortem brain samples from 480 individuals ranging in…

A new study could explain how migrating to another country increases a person’s risk of developing schizophrenia, by altering brain chemistry. Immigrants had higher levels of the brain chemical dopamine than non-immigrants in the study; abnormal dopami…