A Penn State researcher and her collaborator found that physical abuse was associated with decreases in children’s cognitive performance, while...

While it has long been known that maltreatment can affect a child's psychological development, new Penn State research indicates that...

Concentrated poverty -- neighborhoods where 40 percent of the population or more lives below the federal poverty level -- is...

Adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) use emergency-department services four times as often as their peers without autism, according to...

Young adults diagnosed with ADHD may display subtle physiological signs that could lead to a more precise diagnosis, according to...

Increasing the activity of the neurotransmitter GABA in the brains of depressed mice has antidepressant effects Experimentally increasing the activity...

Finding meaning outside of work and proactively tailoring duties on the job may help people who fail to gel with...

Teaching parents bedtime techniques to encourage healthy sleep habits in their infants may help prevent obesity, according to Penn State...

Mentioning politics in a message about an environmental issue may turn people -- even people informed about the issue --...

First-time parents are only somewhat satisfied with their sex lives according to Penn State health researchers who checked in with...

New research demonstrates the effectiveness of ketamine to treat depression in a mouse model of the disease and brings together...

Male voices are not deeply pitched in order to attract female mates, but instead serve to intimidate the competition, according...

Older adults, who are Facebook's fastest growing demographic, are joining the social network to stay connected and make new connections,...

Sexual health research focused on men who have sex with men is lacking, according to health researchers, even in the...

A theory that links memory encoding to expectations of future relevance may better explain how human memory works, according to...