Maggot infestations, rotting carcasses, unidentifiable gunk in the kitchen sink – how much your brain responds to disgusting images could predict whether you are liberal or conservative. If you don't…

Targeting cognition through the body. Cognition by Shutterstock By Michal Schwartz, Weizmann Institute of Science; Aleksandra Deczkowska, Weizmann Institute of Science, and Kuti Baruch, Weizmann…

A new study has found that  age-related memory decline in healthy older adults can be reversed by dietary cocoa flavanols, the naturally occurring bioactives found in cocoa. As people age, they…

A new study found that people ages 60 and older who do not have dementia benefit from light alcohol consumption; it has been associated with higher episodic memory, the ability to recall memories of…

A paper presented at the annual congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) in Berlin says that moderate cannabis use by adolescents does not lead to educational or…

Is fairness built into the brain? According to a new Norwegian brain paper, people appreciate fairness - but fairness is not that everybody gets the same income, which is sure to concern those who…

 A region of human chromosome 16, known as 16p11.2, is prone to genetic changes in which segments of DNA are deleted or duplicated and is considered to be one of the leading candidates for…

Unless you are trapped at a Larry Summers protest at Harvard in 2006, you know that male and female brains are not equal in all ways. Another study affirms that, finding a difference when…

Won't get fooled again. Credit: Tinfoil hat by Suzanne Tucker/Shutterstock By Rebecca Slack, University of Sheffield How do you decide if you can trust someone? Is it based on their handshake, the…

Time is in our hands, more than we realize. Credit: Spanish Flea/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND By Kristin Alford and Neil Houghton, Monash University We are curious about time. It holds us in a state of wonder…