What’s the big idea? The time to start working on positive mental health outcomes should not be when a mental health crisis begins. In a country that has an epidemic of loneliness and rising ...

Understanding how the brain learns and applies rules is the key to unraveling the neural basis of flexible behavior. A new ...

New research in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise suggests exercise may be one way to boost that self-control. Specifically, researchers found that an aerobic activity protocol improved ...

A large genetic study found people with gene variants that lower certain cholesterol pathways had a markedly lower chance of ...

What if aging didn’t have to mean slowing down, losing strength, or watching your health decline? That’s the message from Dr.

Researchers have identified a remarkably small but critical piece of genetic code that helps determine how brain cells connect, communicate, and function. The discovery not only deepens our ...

In a fast-paced digital world, always-on notifications and multitasking often result in what’s been described as ‘popcorn brain’. This creates a state of restlessness and mental distraction. Discover ...

Heavy alcohol use, which researchers defined as regular alcohol consumption of three or more drinks per day, is linked to more severe brain bleeds (or a bleeding stroke) and earlier long-term brain ...

James Kimmel, Jr., is a lecturer of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, a lawyer, and the founder and co-director of the Yale Collaborative for Motive Control Studies. He is the creator of The ...

Oral contraceptives have been effectively preventing pregnancy for more than 65 years, but it has only been in the past 10 that scientists – many of them women – have started to seriously examine what ...