For families of children with severe epilepsy, controlling seizures is often just the beginning of their challenges. Even in ...

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

UCLA researchers used stem cell–derived brain models to study SCN8A-linked epilepsy. They found that gene variants caused ...

Behaviors often include lying, impulsiveness and aggression. Many of those who've exhibited lifelong antisocial, aka sociopathic, behavior -- lying, impulsiveness, aggression, lacking concern for ...

Researchers have shown that astrocytes in the lateral hypothalamus play a pivotal role in how stress shapes behavior, particularly after early-life adversity.

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study published in Cell Genomics, researchers at Lund University in Sweden show ...

A suspected perpetrator who can barely remember his name, several traffic violations committed by a woman in her mid-fifties who is completely unreasonable and doesn't understand her behavior—should ...

Kenneth Kendler, one of the most influential and prolific psychiatric researchers and historians of our time, recently published two articles examining the role of the brain in psychiatric disorders: ...

Canadian researchers show that stress modifies the morphology of brain cells in mice, directly influencing the rodents' level ...