May 10th, 2013

People provided with a real-time readout of their brain activity can learn to control that activity and decrease their ...
May 9th, 2013

Children with autism can detect simple movements twice as fast as typically developing children, and this hypersensitivity to motion may provide insight into the workings behind the ...
May 7th, 2013

For many people who don't respond to standard antidepressant treatment, electric brain stimulation -- known as vagus nerve stimulation -- has been shown to effectively relieve severe symptoms of ...
May 5th, 2013

A new study reports that babies whose growth in the womb is at either end of the extreme -- either very small ...
May 5th, 2013

Brain function in adults as young as 35 may decline as their risk of heart disease increases, according to new research.
"Young adults ...
May 4th, 2013

A new study reveals that depression is associated with the later development of Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia -- a condition caused by blocked or reduced blood flow ...
May 3rd, 2013

New research finds prevention programs which target teen girls at high risk for pregnancy can provide substantial benefit.
Experts from the University of Minnesota School of Nursing found ...
May 3rd, 2013

Researchers say playing a video game can help to prevent the natural loss of cognitive abilities that begin in ...
May 2nd, 2013

An international team of researchers has determined that child abuse leaves a distinct change in biological pathways.
Such discoveries have the ...
April 30th, 2013

Despite the devastating effects of schizophrenia, it is often difficult to diagnose early.
As with all mental disorders and many other diseases, mental health professionals rely on a ...