A new study has found that having a positive relationship with a teacher around the age of 10-11 years old...

From middle-age, the brains of obese individuals display differences in white matter similar to those in lean individuals ten years...

Scientists have mapped the structural changes that occur in teenagers' brains as they develop, showing how these changes may help...

Cambridge researchers have identified - and shown that it may be possible to control - the mechanism that leads to...

People who are addicted to cocaine are particularly prone to developing habits that render their behaviour resistant to change, regardless...

Researchers have used a non-invasive method of observing how the process leading to Parkinson's disease takes place at the nanoscale,...

Overweight young adults may have poorer episodic memory - the ability to recall past events - than their peers, suggests...

People in the ancient world did not always believe in the gods, a new study suggests – casting doubt on...

Researchers have constructed the first comprehensive model of how neurons in the brain behave when faced with a complex decision-making...

Researchers have successfully demonstrated how it is possible to interface graphene - a two-dimensional form of carbon - with neurons,...

The complex pattern of 'chatter' between different areas of an individual's brain while they are awake could help doctors better...

Individuals addicted to cocaine may have difficulty in controlling their addiction because of a previously-unknown 'back door' into the brain,...

Health services in many countries increasingly rely on prescribed 'psychosocial interventions': treatments that use counselling techniques to tackle mental health...

People who show compulsive sexual behaviour, commonly referred to as sex addiction, are driven to search more for new sexual...

People diagnosed with schizophrenia who are prone to hallucinations are likely to have structural differences in a key region of...