Results from a new clinical study conducted at Uppsala University suggest that curtailing sleep alters the abundance of bacterial gut...

A research group at Uppsala University has investigated how levels of endocannabinoids – which target the same receptors as cannabis...

Many people suffer from anxiety and fears, and a common treatment for these problems is exposure therapy. In a new...

The use of smartphones and tablet computers during evening hours has previously been associated with sleep disturbances in humans. A...

A new study from Uppsala University shows that compared to non-shift workers, shift workers needed more time to complete a...

Human communication is powered by rules for combining words to generate novel meanings. Such syntactical rules have long been assumed...

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in passing an antibody through the blood-brain barrier to act as a tracer...

Individuals subjected to chronic low-dose exposure to organochlorine pesticides show and increased risk to obtain a future diagnosis of cognitive...

Experiencing a traumatic event can cause life-long anxiety problems, called posttraumatic stress disorder. Researchers from Uppsala University and the medical...

Swedish researchers at Uppsala University and the Karolinska Institute have found that genes that control the biological clocks in cells...

It is known that sleep facilitates the formation of long-term memory in humans. In a new study, researchers from Uppsala...

Previous studies have led researchers to believe that individuals with social anxiety disorder/ social phobia have too low levels of...

A new study from SciLifeLab at Uppsala University published in PLOS ONE shows that genes crucial for vision were multiplied...

In a new study, researchers from Uppsala University demonstrate that elderly men with self-reported sleep disturbances run a higher risk...

What does it mean to simulate the human brain? Why is it important to do so? And is it even...