Older adults with depression tended to have a smaller volume in one part of the hippocampus, a brain region hit early by ...

Women with higher natural progesterone levels showed less distinct brain activity patterns when overriding automatic emotional impulses, according to a neuroimaging study of 116 young women. Estradiol ...

A new study identifies a stable, brain-derived RNA molecule in the bloodstream that accurately predicts whether a patient ...

Inconsistent discipline is often blamed for aggressive behavior in children. But a study of Norwegian extended families and U ...

Chatting with a chatbot seems easy, but a small brain imaging study suggests six-year-olds don’t yet coordinate their brain’s ...

Young people who met criteria for a psychotic disorder at 18 had slightly smaller heads from birth through age 15. But once height was taken into account, the difference largely disappeared, pointing ...

A massive analysis of Swedish administrative records reveals that higher cognitive abilities strongly predict prosocial behaviors. Individuals with higher general intelligence are consistently more ...

There may be a physical reason lying down feels good when you’re hurting. Pain sensitivity was modestly lower while lying ...

A large longitudinal study reveals that early childhood intelligence scores can predict the pace at which gray and white ...

A third of U.S. teen boys in a new survey said they follow Andrew Tate at least a little. Those who did tended to favor ...

Early-life pain may leave a lasting mark on social behavior by tipping the balance between excitation and inhibition in the brain. In mice, restoring that balance, including with deep brain ...

Animal studies have described “low road” pathways that rush sensory information from the thalamus to the amygdala. A brain ...