Much of the world frowns on the practice of polygamy. Most countries around the globe ban or restrict marriages to...

Vitamin D insufficiency among the elderly is highly correlated with accelerated cognitive decline and impaired performance, particularly in domains such...

UC Davis health economists have for the first time projected the total costs of caring for all people with autism...

As disabling as its delusions and hallucinations, psychosis' devastating toll on memory arises from dysfunction of frontal and temporal lobe...

The constant movement of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be distracting -- but the fidgeting also may improve their...

Curiosity helps us learn about a topic, and being in a curious state also helps the brain memorize unrelated information,...

Known as “brief depression symptom measures,” the self-administered questionnaires are used in primary care settings to determine the frequency and...

In what may be the largest study of sleep problems among individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS), researchers at UC Davis...

Early life experiences, such as childhood socioeconomic status and literacy, may have greater influence on the risk of cognitive impairment...

Our ability to make choices — and sometimes mistakes — might arise from random fluctuations in the brain's background electrical...

Children with autism experience deficits in a type of immune cell that protects the body from infection. Called granulocytes, the...

Our ability to store memories improves during childhood, associated with structural changes in the hippocampus and its connections with prefrontal...

The very earliest signs of a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder, in which physical symptoms are not apparent until the fifth decade...

A new University of California, Davis, study suggests that for most adolescents, becoming more popular both increases their risk of...

Before I left the house this morning, I let the cat out and started the dishwasher. Or was that yesterday?...