Puberty is the defining process of adolescent development and it leads to  variety of changes throughout the body - even including the brain. Writing in  in Proceedings of the National…

A new study demonstrates the importance of considering developmental differences when creating programs for cochlear implants in infants. Cochlear implants, which are surgically placed in the inner…

Mindfulness. Zen. Meditation drumming. Chakra. Buddhist and transcendental meditation. It evokes eastern mystics and hip elites in California pretending to to leave their corporeal forms behind…

Are you a control freak?  Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is something else entirely. It is a condition marked by thoughts and images that chronically intrude in the mind and by engaging in…

A research team from the Friedman Brain Institute of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has published evidence which finds that subtle changes of inhibitory signaling in the reward pathway…

In a new paper,  researchers used animal models to show that the fragile X mental retardation protein, or FMRP, plays a critical role in the development of addiction-related behaviors. FMRP is…

People who have a variant of a longevity gene called KLOTHO also have improved brain skills such as thinking, learning and memory regardless of their age, sex, or whether they have a genetic risk…

A new study looked into the modulatory effects that musical training could have on the use of the different sides of the brain when performing music and language tasks.  It found that brief…

Why do we yawn? It's unclear. One hypothesis is that yawning helps to increase the oxygen supply but there no association between yawning and blood oxygen levels has been found. Psychologists…

Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed of Hungary was such a prolific serial killer she has been termed "The Blood Countess". Her vampire-like tendencies - especially bathing in the blood of young women…