There may be a physical reason lying down feels good when you’re hurting. Pain sensitivity was modestly lower while lying ...

A third of U.S. teen boys in a new survey said they follow Andrew Tate at least a little. Those who did tended to favor ...

Young people who met criteria for a psychotic disorder at 18 had slightly smaller heads from birth through age 15. But once height was taken into account, the difference largely disappeared, pointing ...

A large longitudinal study reveals that early childhood intelligence scores can predict the pace at which gray and white ...

A massive analysis of Swedish administrative records reveals that higher cognitive abilities strongly predict prosocial behaviors. Individuals with higher general intelligence are consistently more ...

Early-life pain may leave a lasting mark on social behavior by tipping the balance between excitation and inhibition in the brain. In mice, restoring that balance, including with deep brain ...

Animal studies have described “low road” pathways that rush sensory information from the thalamus to the amygdala. A brain ...

Cannabis is often a group activity in college, but the pattern looks different among heavier users. Students who used more often shared less in a hypothetical sharing task and were less likely to use ...

Why are some people drawn to manipulative or even violent partners? In a study of 400 Brazilian adults, those with darker ...

A massive genetic analysis reveals that while men and women share much of the underlying risk for anxiety, they also possess ...

Children with ADHD process unexpected sounds differently than their peers, but these brain responses change as they grow. New research shows heightened sensitivity to sudden noises in early childhood ...

A meta-analysis of 11 long-running studies covering up to 134,515 workers found that rising pay tended to precede small gains ...