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Alcohol use disorder (AUD) affects about 400 million people worldwide and is a leading cause of serious illnesses such as ...

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Dyslexia is a common learning difficulty in which genes often play a role. How do genes associated with dyslexia relate to brain structure in the general population? In a large-scale study, a team of ...

Caltech's John O'Doherty is on a quest to understand how human brains make decisions: how they gather evidence about their ...

There has been a major breakthrough in neuroscience thanks to a group of researchers from Rochester, Yale, and Princeton ...

Lower brain oxygen levels caused by sleep apnea were linked to changes to the white matter, which could lead to cognitive ...

Does writing by hand still matter in a digital world? According to a new study in Frontiers in Psychology, the answer is yes.

Former World Boxing Champion John Famechon decided it was time to undertake what became the great, long walk as part of his ...

Learn how aging affects financial skills and increases vulnerability to scams, and the role of financial literacy in ...