In as little as a few months, antipsychotic medications can tame the delusions and hallucinations that characterize schizophrenia. But the...

A new UCLA psychology study provides insights into how the brain combines sound and vision. The research suggests that there...

It's an age-old quandary: Are we born "noble savages" whose best intentions are corrupted by civilization, as the 18th century...

Why do opponents of same-sex marriage really oppose it? A UCLA psychology study published online today in the journal Psychological...

"You must remember this: a kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh." Contrary to the words...

People on social media are often unsupportive of cyberbullying victims who have shared highly personal feelings, UCLA psychologists report. Compared...

They stay up late into the evening, average less than 6.5 hours of sleep and rarely nap. College students during...

A team of UCLA scientists has found that brain areas linked to social behaviors are both underdeveloped and insufficiently networked...

The traditional pressure in academia for faculty to "publish or perish" advances knowledge in established areas. But it also might...

In a study exploring racial bias and how people use their mind's-eye image of an imagined person's size to represent...

A diet high in processed fructose sabotages rat brains' ability to heal after head trauma, UCLA neuroscientists report. Revealing a...

Alzheimer's disease, long thought to be a single disease, really consists of three distinct subtypes, according to a UCLA study....

A 39-year-old man who had had been completely paralyzed for four years was able to voluntarily control his leg muscles...

"It's like she's not really there." - Study participant who bought sex Men who buy sex have less empathy for...

Many people who are skeptical about vaccinating their children can be convinced to do so, but only if the argument...