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A new study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, is the first-ever global meta-analysis on the possible link between post-tra...

You might have noticed how, after a night of poor sleep, any sort of stress you experience feels magnified. Now a new study from the Univ...

We tend to think of our personalities as pretty fixed and stable. We divide ourselves into introverts and extroverts, dreamers and realis...

According to the Innocence Project, false eyewitness reports play a role in roughly 70% of wrongful convictions. Witnesses to crimes are ...

In the middle of a pandemic, with economic and political unrest growing everywhere and the promise of an ugly election cycle coming up, i...

Dementia is a devastating condition, and as our population ages, a looming fear for many. For decades, science has sought to better under...

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According to a recently published nationwide study by two professors at the University of South Florida, Black people are five times more...

There's an epidemic sweeping the world, and it's not the one you think. A new paper published in the Trends in Cognitive Sciences journal...

Feeling a bit sick? Wondering if you're coming down with something? If your first instinct is to turn to Google for a little self-diagnos...

Alzheimer's disease and other dementias can have devastating effects. Neuroscience is searching for ways to offset, delay, or prevent the...

Welcome back to our Sleep Series, a string of blog posts about the role of sleep in our lives, including the benefits of achieving enough...

Can you predict what someone's personality will be like based on their infant behavior? A new study funded by the National Institutes of ...

It will probably not come as a surprise to you that life during a pandemic can be challenging for one's mental health. Even the CDC websi...

If you took French or Spanish in high school, now's the time to brush up on those verb tenses. A study at UCLA has found that people who ...

By now, all our lives have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Events have been canceled. Movie theaters and restaurants stand empty....