Earlier this year, a worldwide happiness survey showed that Americans are less happy than people in other countries and ...

Analysis of human brain tissue revealed differences in how immune cells behave in brains with Alzheimer's disease compared to ...

How to keep people off railway tracks? Most hazard signage in use today was designed long ago and has not proven effective.

A team of researchers led by Rice University's Jacob Robinson and the University of Texas Medical Branch's Peter Kan has ...

Research suggests that omega-3s can support brain health, especially for people who carry a gene that raises the risk of ...

The National Institute of Mental Health awards a $344,589 grant to Associate Professor and Behavioral Neuroscientist Laura ...

This is a key developmental period for acquiring all the cognitive skills needed in the complex social environment of a human group. The current consensus is that the very long growth of modern humans ...

Johns Hopkins University-led researchers, working with the Biomarkers for Older Controls at Risk for Dementia (BIOCARD) ...

A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate evolution.

The Huntington’s disease (HD) mutation eventually causes a fatal brain disease in adulthood, but a University of Iowa study finds that early in life, children with the HD mutation have bigger brains ...

Researchers created the most detailed map of the brain's functional networks using data from people watching movies, including "Inception," "Home Alone" and "Erin Brokovich." ...

The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...