The more teenagers delay smoking marijuana until they're older, the better it is for their brains, but there may be...

Results of new study led by Linda Pagani, professor at the University of Montreal’s School of Psychoeducation, show that young...

Years of research have shown that impulsivity in childhood is among the individual vulnerabilities leading to substance abuse, delinquency, as...

Smoking addiction in schizophrenia can be explained by significantly increased activation of the ventro-medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), a region involved...

Alzheimer's not only steals people's memories but also their ability to recognize faces, which widens the gulf between people with...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of visual impairment in people over 50 in developed countries. Although this...

No autism is alike. This is also true of most mental disorders. "We now understand that each gene mutation has...

Researcher Christian Duval, PhD, and his team have developed a new, simple and non-invasive approach to create a biomechanical and...

Facebook can have positive and negative effects on teens levels of a stress hormone, say researchers at the University of...

Consumers of self-help books are more sensitive to stress and show higher depressive symptomatology, according to a study conducted by...

Preschoolers who score lower on a working memory task are likely to score higher on a dropout risk scale at...

In a new study from the University of Montreal, infants remained calm twice as long when listening to a song,...

More than 99% of the time, two words are enough for people with normal hearing to distinguish the voice of...

Repeating aloud boosts verbal memory, especially when you do it while addressing another person, says Professor Victor Boucher of the...

Women react differently to negative images compared to men, which may be explained by subtle differences in brain function. This...