Music training, begun as late as high school, may help improve the teenage brain's responses to sound and sharpen hearing...

You can fake a smile, but your phone knows the truth. Depression can be detected from your smartphone sensor data...

A quick biological test may be able to identify children who have literacy challenges or learning disabilities long before they...

Finding a job is difficult for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and individuals with severe mental illness, who have...

In recent years, sci­en­tists have dis­cov­ered the human brain works on pre­dic­tions, con­trary to the pre­vi­ously accepted theory that it...

Why do some people immediately burst into laughter after a humorous moment, while others can barely crack a smile? New...

Can we learn to rid ourselves of our implicit biases regarding race and gender? A new Northwestern University study indicates...

Two pennies can be considered the same -- both are pennies, just as two elephants can be considered the same,...

The Netherlands had the strongest stereotypes associating science with men more than women, according to a new Northwestern University study...

Most psychiatric disorders - including depression -- do not predict future violent behavior, according to new Northwestern Medicine longitudinal study...

Researchers are always searching for improved technologies, but the most efficient computer possible already exists. It can learn and adapt...

Middle-aged Americans who show high levels of societal involvement and positive mental health are especially likely to construe their lives...

A father's depression during the first years of parenting - as well as a mother's - can put their toddler...

Amyloid -- an abnormal protein whose accumulation in the brain is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease -- starts accumulating inside...

If you've ever been told that you're "tone deaf" or "can't carry a tune," don't give up. New research out...