What happens in the human brain when we learn from positive and negative experiences? To help answer that question and better understand decision-making and human behavior, scientists are studying ...

Why does the brain of some people stay sharp into their 80s and beyond? An expert explains what 25 years of exploring the ...

Researchers have shown that astrocytes in the lateral hypothalamus play a pivotal role in how stress shapes behavior, particularly after early-life adversity.

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For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

Canadian researchers show that stress modifies the morphology of brain cells in mice, directly influencing the rodents' level ...

A team of scientists identifies a molecular mechanism that helps explain how airborne toxins influences Lewy body dementia ...

Many of those who've exhibited lifelong antisocial, aka sociopathic, behavior -- lying, impulsiveness, aggression, lacking concern for others -- have abnormal brain structures, according to a new ...

The View of the Authors In our book Demystifying Psychiatry, we define psychiatry as “the medical specialty that deals with disorders affecting the human mind and behavior.” ...

The human brain is the most complex organ in the body and the control center of the nervous system. Weighing about three pounds and composed of approximately 86 billion neurons, it governs every ...

A suspected perpetrator who can barely remember his name, several traffic violations committed by a woman in her mid-fifties who is completely unreasonable and doesn't understand her behavior—should ...