Prolonged mental fatigue can wear down brain areas crucial for an individual's ability to self-control, and can cause people ...

Neuroimaging sheds new light on the brain’s role in rumination, a mental pattern often linked to depression. Researchers ...

By scanning the brains of people while they watched movie clips, neuroscientists have created the most detailed functional ...

Genes play a powerful role in shaping your health—you won’t believe how your DNA influences everything from ADHD to Parkinson ...

A new study tracked the brain areas that activated as people watched scenes from 'Home Alone' and other films.

But in the long term, too much cortisol can kill you because it actually shrinks your hippocampus, the brain area responsible for memory storage,” says Avron. And although the test subjects were ...

With growing evidence that loneliness increases the risk for multiple diseases, there are questions about the mechanisms at ...

A study reveals that prolonged mental exertion leads to changes in the brain's frontal cortex, resembling sleep activity, which heightens aggressive behaviors. This finding supports the idea that ...

A human skull found in a remote area northeast of Big Bear over the weekend has prompted a death investigation, authorities announced Tuesday. A hunter in the Smarts Ranch Road area north of ...

Antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) are an established therapy for pregnant women at risk of preterm birth. Researchers from ...

In a new multidisciplinary study published in the PNAS, a group of researchers from neuroscience and economics at the IMT School of Advanced Studies Lucca links the debated concept of "ego depletion", ...