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Chronic lack of sleep and irregular sleep-wake cycles may be risk factors of Parkinson's disease, new work by researchers at...

Individuals with Down syndrome who survive into adulthood face the additional challenge of early-onset dementia, in which toxic amyloid plaques...

It's long been known that scratching evokes a rewarding and pleasurable sensation in patients with chronic itch. Now, researchers in...

Blocking a key receptor in brain cells that is used by oxygen free radicals could play a major role in...

Adults who were abused or neglected as children are known to have poorer health, but adults who tend to focus...

People who experience chronic sleep disturbance—either through their work, insomnia or other reasons—could face an earlier onset of dementia and...

It is well known that teenagers take risks—and when they do, they like to have company. Teens are five times...

Researchers at Shriner's Hospital Pediatric Research Center at the Temple University School of Medicine, and the University of Pennsylvania have...

Today, mothers of newborns find themselves confronting a common dilemma: Should they let their babies cry it out when they...

Decreased kidney function is associated with decreased cognitive functioning in areas such as global cognitive ability, abstract reasoning and verbal...

Spatial skills--those involved with reading maps and assembling furniture--can be improved if you work at it, that's according to a...

A key to helping rural families with children at risk of suicide is frank discussion of guns says Jonathan Singer,...

Personalized email advertisements are far more likely to repel customers than to endear them, according to a study led by...