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Certain aromas can send our minds hurtling back to childhood. How does this happen? Here we discuss the biology of odor detection and its link to emotion.

Siblings bear responsibility for the spread of problem behaviors. Adolescents with a delinquent brother or sister are more likely to misuse alcohol and other substances than those without a…

Children aged 7 to 12 rate gender as more important than race, research shows. It also reveals that their perceptions of both are a complex mix of personal and societal influences.

New research has found a way to partially restore brain cell communication around areas damaged by plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

Using a new imaging technique, researchers have confirmed what scientists have always thought to be true: the structural connections in the brain are unique to each individual person.

Every night while you sleep, electrical waves of brain activity circle around each side of your brain, tracing a pattern that, were it on the surface of your head, might look like the twin hair buns of Star Wars’ Princess Leia. The scientists who disco…

Depressive symptoms in women during and after pregnancy are associated with reduced thickness of the cortex — the outer layer of the brain responsible for complex thought and behavior — in preschool-age kids, according to a new study. The findings su…

Two approaches have been revealed by researchers that have the potential to help a large number of children with autism spectrum disorder through behavioral therapy.

Chances are that children who eat excessive amounts of fatty foods will not only become obese, but will develop cognitive and psychiatric problems when they are older, a study in mice suggests. This is because, according to a recent study, diets rich i…

Our current understanding is that mice have either no — or extremely limited — neural circuitry and genes similar to those that regulate human speech. According to a recent study, this understanding may be incorrect.