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A new study finds yoga improves symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder, suggesting the popular practice may be helpful in treating anxiety in some people.

There is no question that motivation is one of the hardest and yet important factors in life. It's the difference between success and failure, goal-setting and aimlessness, well-being and unhappiness. And yet, why is it so hard to get motivated - or even if we do, to keep it up?

Did the man bite the dog, or was it the other way around? When processing an utterance, words need to be assembled into the correct interpretation within working memory. Researchers have proposed a way in which the brain achieves this where individual neurons store and process chunks of information to build up a working memory for language.

Sleep paralysis - a condition thought to explain a number of mysterious experiences including alleged cases of alien abduction and demonic night-time visits - could be treated using a technique of meditation-relaxation, suggests a pilot study published today.

Electric fish generate electric pulses to communicate with other fish and sense their surroundings. The question of how these fish filter out their own pulses so they can identify external messages and only respond to those signals has long baffled scientists. Until now.

In an animal model of multiple sclerosis, decreasing the amount of a protein made in the liver significantly protected against the development of key symptoms and promoted recovery.

A new study by a team of researchers from the University of Toronto (U of T) has identified the region of the brain's hippocampus that links low income with decreased memory and language ability in children.

Researchers have found evidence of signature brain activity in infants that predicted ASD symptoms later at 18 months old.

Obesity in expectant mothers may hinder the development of the babies' brains as early as the second trimester, a new study finds.

"Memory is the first thing to go." Everyone has heard it, and decades of research studies seem to confirm it: While it may not always be the first sign of aging, some faculties, including memory, do get worse as people age. New research suggests things may not be that straightforward.