Stress, the body's natural response to different types of challenges and daily problems, is an inherently harmless state ...

Research at Karlstad University shows that exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals and adverse life events during ...

Stress is the body's natural response to everyday difficulties and challenges, which can even be beneficial in the short term ...

Dopamine in the brain influences movement, learning, motivation and sleep. In humans, problems with dopamine are linked to ...

Heavy use of smartphones, internet, and many social media platforms can have debilitating effects on our neural processing, ...

Transcription factors that tune the expression of multiple genes could be key players in regulating behavior, but scientists need to scout for them. Peter Hamilton, a neuroscientist at Virginia ...

A new study has found that psychopaths show structural changes in particular areas of the brain that deal with things like impulse control and emotional regulation. This improved understanding may ...

What happens in the human brain when we learn from positive and negative experiences? To help answer that question and better understand decision making and human behavior, scientists are studying ...

Statistics suggest that the size of families in many countries is shrinking and a growing number of parents worldwide either willingly or unwillingly end up only having one child. While many ...