Brain Health

A new study of Syrian teen refugees finds the poverty of their current lives may cloud parts of their thinking more than the experience of war.

Research on young mice and rats shows how nicotine hijacks brain systems involved in learning, memory, impulse control and addiction.

Compared with monkeys, humans have a brain that is extremely sensitive to a sound's pitch. And that may reflect our exposure to speech and music.

The decades-long Framingham Heart Study in Massachusetts, which started in 1948 and is still going, paved the way for a lot of what we know about heart...