When we think of hoarders, the image that likely comes to us is of a house or apartment unit piled so high with old newspapers and junk t...

By this point, we're no doubt all familiar with the lowered mood associated with life during the COVID-19 pandemic.The combination of iso...

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

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

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

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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...

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

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 ...

As Covid-19 forces us indoors, people are more and more relying on their social circles, for favors big and small. William Chopik, assist...

As adults, we don’t need to be persuaded to seek a good night’s sleep. That well-rested, energetic feeling is reward enough. But what abo...

Parks and nature preserves: they're not just for taking a jog or walking your dog. Visiting green spaces yields real benefits for the bra...