Some adults’ brains look “older” than their age long before old age. In a study of 1,400+ people aged 18 to 65, older-looking brain patterns were linked to somewhat weaker working memory, more ...

A large study of families suggests that a child's own DNA drives their ADHD traits by mid-childhood, finding no robust ...

Brain scans of more than 1,600 young people suggest that the fine-grained tissue structure of the amygdala, hippocampus, and ...

A small pilot study found that a high dose of psilocybin strengthened an illusion in which a striped pattern looks fainter ...

Advocating for unrestricted freedom of speech is not always driven by democratic ideals. A new psychological study finds that ...

By simulating human visual processing with a deep neural network, researchers have discovered a computational marker that predicts an adolescent's risk for developing depression up to four years ...

Does a nurse want a different kind of partner than an engineer? In a study of nearly 2,000 adults across seven countries, the industry people worked in had almost no link to what they prioritized in a ...

Does living somewhere with lots of social freedom change whose worldview you share? New research suggests it does, mostly by ...

Psilocybin, LSD, and 2C-B all act on the same serotonin receptor, so they are often treated as a single drug class. But brain ...

Children living in areas with unhealthy levels of fine particulate matter or ozone showed smaller two-year gains in cognitive ...

Streaming digital jazz might do more than provide background noise. New research shows that algorithm-curated jazz playlists ...

Teenagers who overuse smartphones often struggle to manage their own learning later on. A new longitudinal study reveals that ...