A new study published in Scientific Reports suggests that the connection between a young adult’s cognitive ability and their future socioeconomic status is largely driven by their genes. The findings ...

Epilepsy affects roughly 50 million people worldwide, yet the genetic roots of its most common forms have remained stubbornly obscure. A new mini-review published in Genomic Psychiatry brings together ...

Scientists have identified a critical breakdown in the cellular machinery that produces proteins in aging brains.

A protein best known for its role in Parkinson's disease may help explain why women make up around two-thirds of Alzheimer's ...

AMID persistent challenges to women's place in society, efforts to elevate their voices must continue.

Objectives To evaluate whether type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) presence and severity are associated with differences in global and domain-specific cognitive function among US adults, using ...

Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

A protein called REST appears dramatically more active in the brains of people who stay cognitively sharp into their 80s and 90s, and its discovery is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about ...

Over the course of their lives, up to 220,000 Norwegians will pick at their skin or pull out their hair to an extent that can ...

Attention has turned to progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare neurodegenerative disorder. Here's what it is and why it's often mistaken for Parkinson’s disease.

Cognitive “speed training” can reduce the risk of a dementia diagnosis by 25 per cent – that’s according to results from the world’s first randomised controlled trial of any intervention against the ...

Abstract: Like any kind of learning, word learning requires that learners start with a set of possible hypotheses. And the shape of that hypothesis space (what it contains) imposes limits on the kinds ...