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Researchers have conducted a meta-analysis of 17 articles to find out which areas of the brain are involved in decision-making for rendering social punishment.

Yoga has been found to be an effective approach to treating co-occurring sleep disturbance and back pain, simultaneously reducing the need for medication.

One of the ways a cancer-causing gene works up enough power to turn a normal cell into a cancer cell is by copying itself over and over, like a Xerox machine. Scientists have long noticed that when cancer-causing genes do that, they also scoop up some extra DNA into their copies.

The study was published in the leading journal Nature Communications.

Michigan State University's Sleep and Learning Lab has conducted one of the largest sleep studies to date, revealing that sleep deprivation affects us much more than prior theories have suggested.

Study establishes how some songs sound 'right' in different social contexts, all over the world. The new study on music examines it as a cultural product and what makes it truly "universal."

Working with Caenorhabditis elegans, a transparent nematode found in soil, researchers were the first to find that the nervous system controls the tiny worm's cuticle, a skin-like exterior barrier, in response to bacterial infections.

This is the first study to really show, in a statistical model, that air pollution was associated with Alzheimer’s-like brain changes with declines in memory performance.

Now, Salk Institute researchers have discovered a brain circuit that controls alcohol drinking behavior in mice, and can be used as a biomarker for predicting the development of compulsive drinking later on.

The cerebral cortex is not the only area with perceptual abilities.