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A new study from The Miriam Hospital and The Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies found that interventions...

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Humans have a remarkable ability to synchronize to complex, temporally structured acoustic signals, an ability which is believed to underlie...

Older adults who take college courses may increase their cognitive capacity and possibly reduce their risk for developing Alzheimer's disease...

When parents have high hopes for their children's academic achievement, the children tend to do better in school, unless those...

Eating is a fundamentally multisensory experience: we don't just eat our food, we also see it, smell it, and hear...

Recent negative publicity surrounding police after several shootings of unarmed civilians appears to have diminished some officers' motivation to be...

Fear-based appeals appear to be effective at influencing attitudes and behaviors, especially among women, according to a comprehensive review of...