Heroes, Warriors, and Martyrs—may be biologically imprinted in our DNA. Science, psychology, and epigenetics reveal the roots ...

This research fundamentally transforms our understanding of human uniqueness and the evolution of human language.

Alcohol use remains one of the most preventable risk factors for cancer. Even moderate alcohol consumption – one or fewer drinks per day – may elevate cancer risk for some types, such as breast, ...

Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.

The largest, most ethnically diverse, study of its kind has flagged hundreds of genetic variants that play a role in ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have uncovered new insights into the mechanisms underlying autism spectrum disorder (ASD ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have uncovered new insights into the mechanisms underlying autism spectrum disorder (ASD ...

In 1966, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu introduced extreme policies to increase the country’s birth rate. This led to ...

Physician empathy has long been recommended — but not required — in the doctor-patient relationship.However, for a growing ...

Stanford Medicine scientists are generating a periodic table of sorts for psychiatric disorders, providing a better ...

The last several decades produced revolutionary advances in two areas: identifying neuronal processes responsible for intelligence and designing machine ...