What drives the onset of alcohol dependence in midlife? How does it present unique challenges, and what strategies can help ...

Individuals acting as caregivers saw a decrease in life satisfaction and mood, alongside increases in depression, anxiety, ...

Elizabeth Kensinger discusses her research on the role of emotion in memory and changes in the field in an interview with APS ...

A decade ago then president Barack Obama proposed spending $75 million over three years to help states buy police body cameras to expand their use. The move came in the wake of the killing of ...

Whatever the cause, hypochondria is associated with a certain level of innumeracy, or trouble grasping risk levels—difficulty perhaps compounded by anxieties about those risks. Tobias Kube, a ...

It’s easy to sympathize with both my patient and her son. With the son for having suffered more than he might have with earlier intervention. With the mother for believing she had failed him and ...

The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge?We’re often curious in a particular way: we want to ...

Tittle-tattle, scuttlebutt, dishing the dirt, spilling the tea: Whatever you call it. there's no doubt gossip can be seductive.Gossip has long had a bad reputation and gossipers have been seen as ...

How does the brain’s memory function change as we grow older? What recent discoveries are helping us understand these changes better? In this episode of Under the Cortex, Özge Gürcanlı Fischer Baum ...

If a hard day in the office leaves you crabby and uncooperative, you may have an excuse: scientists say exercising self-restraint can exhaust parts of the brain related to decision-making and impulse ...