April 16th, 2013

A new study discovers that sleep can help a musician play a newly introduced melody better the next day.
However, researchers also found that gains in ...
April 12th, 2013

Although modern pharmacology has developed formulas to aid people with mental illness, the method by which the drugs actually work is often ...
April 11th, 2013

New research investigates the manner in which the brain sorts out priorities and keeps processes organized.
For example, your brain knows it's time to cook ...
April 8th, 2013

An emerging area of study involves the role by which prenatal exposure to environmental factors can influence fetal development and increase ...
April 8th, 2013

Though general intelligence is about the same for males and females, studies consistently find that overall, men do better in tests of spatial ability.
A ...
April 8th, 2013

Provocative new animal research suggests that the ability to manage stress is not genetically hardwired into our brain. Rather the brain learns from early experiences ...
April 6th, 2013

As much as a decade before most schizophrenia patients begin showing obvious symptoms, brain scans may be able to detect signs of the disease, according ...
April 3rd, 2013

Exposure to trauma may cause an individual to experience some of the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), such as flashbacks, emotional numbing and difficulty ...
April 1st, 2013

Researchers studying fruit flies report identifying a key molecule that triggers the chemical processes of memory formation.
The finding, published in the journal Frontiers in Neural Circuits, ...
March 31st, 2013

Neuroimaging data could help researchers predict whether a criminal will break the law again once released from prison, according to a new study.
The study ...