Even when people are hard at work, pictures of cookies, pizza and ice cream can distract them -- and these...

One of the two brain-training methods most scientists use in research is significantly better in improving memory and attention, Johns...

People who lose a partner to suicide are at increased risk for a number of mental and physical disorders, including...

Middle-aged people who experience temporary blood pressure drops that often cause dizziness upon standing up may be at an increased...

As Superman flies over the city, people on the ground famously suppose they see a bird, then a plane, and...

More than two in five people receiving buprenorphine, a drug commonly used to treat opioid addiction, are also given prescriptions...

The implementation of state laws legalizing same-sex marriage was associated with a significant reduction in the rate of suicide attempts...

Humans and other vertebrates depend on a portion of the brain called the hippocampus for learning, memory and their sense...

The rate of adolescents reporting a recent bout of clinical depression grew by 37 percent over the decade ending in...

Whether or not they aced the subject in high school, human beings are physics masters when it comes to understanding...

Johns Hopkins University researchers are the first to glimpse the human brain making a purely voluntary decision to act. Unlike...

She no longer recognizes a Van Gogh, but can tell you how to prepare a watercolor palette. She can't recall...

Although math skills are considered notoriously hard to improve, Johns Hopkins University researchers boosted kindergarteners' arithmetic performance simply by exercising...

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers have found that increases in unemployment in California during the Great Recession...

Rats that responded to cues for sugar with the speed and excitement of binge-eaters were less motivated for the treat...