Despite warnings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that hookah smoking can be just as dangerous as cigarettes,...

Surgical residents who received anonymous feedback from their peers through a social networking site on their robotic surgery skills improved...

If you're depressed, don't get enough exercise or have high blood pressure, you may find yourself complaining more about memory...

When single mothers lose their jobs, their children suffer significant negative effects as young adults, according to a new study...

Girls who are told by a parent, sibling, friend, classmate or teacher that they are too fat at age 10...

Two UCLA professors who conducted the most thorough analysis to date of studies on school bullying have found that K-12...

The young, it turns out, smoke more than any other age group in America. Unfortunately, the period of life ranging...

If she loves you and then she loves you not, don't blame the petals of that daisy. Blame evolution. UCLA...

Scientists know there is a strong genetic component to bipolar disorder, but they have had an extremely difficult time identifying...

Children who experience profound neglect have been found to be more prone to a behavior known as indiscriminate friendliness, characterized...

Pity the poor autism researcher. Recent studies have linked hundreds of gene mutations scattered throughout the brain to increased autism...

To survive, animals must explore their world to find the necessities of life. It's a complex task, requiring them to...

There's more bad news for women with sleep apnea. A new study from the UCLA School of Nursing shows that...

UCLA psychologists have used brain-imaging techniques to study what happens to the human brain when it slips into unconsciousness. Their...

Controversy exists over what some mental health experts call hypersexuality, or sexual addiction. Namely, is it a mental disorder at...