In the modern world of long-distance travel, many people have experienced circadian-rhythm disruption, especially after traveling across time zones. The physiology that affects modulating our…

Asparagine, which is found in foods such as meat, eggs, and dairy products, was once considered non-essential because it is also produced naturally by the body. And that is true, for every organ…

There are widespread differences in how genes are expressed in men and women's brains, based on post-mortem adult human brain and spinal cord samples from over 100 individuals analyzed by…

The connections between the left and the right hemispheres of the brain strengthen in young children while they sleeo, which may help brain functions mature, according to a new paper. Scientists have…

Do we process language we hear without regard to anything about the speaker? Perhaps or perhaps not. A small psychological experiment using University of Kansas undergraduates who were paid to…

Beginning two decades ago, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses jumped to 11 percent of American children aged 4 to 17 even though neuroscientists still did not know biologically…

All musical training has some benefits for brains, but new research shows how brain regions communicate during the creation of music and find that extensive musical training affects the structure and…

What do bullies and sex have in common?   The same part of the brain reacts to both.  In a recent study, researchers found that different types of fear are processed by different groups of…

Cocaine addicts may become trapped in drug binges not because they are always seeking euphoric highs but rather to avoid emotional lows, says a study in Psychopharmacology. Rutgers…

Researchers writing in  Science Translational Medicine have shown that monkeys can control the movement of both arms of an avatar - using just their brain activity.  To enable the monkeys…