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A researcher has found that a person’s mental state affects how they look at art.

Researchers have identified a hormone that acts on the brain to increase the desire to drink water in response to specific nutrient stresses that can cause dehydration.

Studies show that too much sitting, like smoking, increases the risk of heart disease, diabetes and premature death. Researchers found sedentary behavior is linked to thinning in regions of the brain that are critical to memory formation.

Seeing an object at the same time that you hear sound coming from somewhere else can lead to the ‘ventriloquist illusion’ and its aftereffect, but research suggests that simply imagining the object produces the same illusory results.

Researchers have associated a diagnosis of epilepsy with a greater risk of suicide, accidental drug poisoning, and other unnatural causes of death.

Medical researchers may have discovered how chronic stress experienced early in life increases vulnerability to post-traumatic stress disorder later in life.

Researchers have developed thin, flexible polymer-based materials for use in microelectrode arrays that record activity more deeply in the brain and with more specific placement.

The ability of babies to differentiate emotional expressions appears to develop during their first six months. But do they really recognize emotion or do they only distinguish the physical characteristics of faces and voices? Researchers have just prov…

The brain continues to put up a fight even as neurodegenerative diseases like dementia damage certain areas and functions. In fact, recent findings in a Baycrest-University of Arizona study suggest that one method the brain uses to counter these diseas…

Inflammatory reactions can change the brain’s immune cells in the long term — meaning that these cells have an ‘immunological memory.’ This memory may influence the progression of neurological disorders that occur later in life, and is therefore a pre…