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What someone says out loud about a group of people and how they actually feel about them aren’t always the same thing, but a person’s true sentiments about other groups of people can be revealed by the language patterns they use in describing their feelings.

New research has shown that accepted theories on how the brain behaves in situations involving multiple visual stimuli may need rethinking.

According to research, the ways in which neural connectivity across distant brain regions spontaneously reconfigures may be inherited from generation to generation.

The dream of a drug that can help ameliorate the stress associated with durable traumatic memories, in order to treat disorders such as PTSD, has come a step closer to reality, according to a new preclinical study.

Brain cells with the same “birthdate” are more likely to wire together into cooperative signaling circuits that carry out many functions, including the storage of memories, a new study finds.

Increasing the dose of folic acid currently proposed to fortify flour would prevent about 80% of neural tube defects, which result in life-threatening and disabling spinal conditions such as spina bifida and anencephaly, a recent study argues.

Four 20-minute sessions of brain stimulation are sufficient to improve short-term and long-term memory function in older adults, suggests a new study published in Nature Neuroscience

A new predictive computer model could accurately predict if a person will change their opinion about a certain topic.

A deep brain stimulation technique has been shown to change the brain's metabolism, making it a potential candidate as a therapy for treatment-resistant depression.

Researchers have developed a new method for studying age-related brain disorders.