Scientists studying 1,300 golden retrievers have uncovered genetic clues explaining why some dogs are more anxious, energetic, or aggressive than others. Remarkably, several of the same genes linked ...

A romantic partner’s drinking habits, personality traits, and mental health can affect how much you drink, and even how strongly genetics influence your drinking behavior.

Psychological development is like a river flowing along its course. From birth, our psychological maturation runs along ...

Being right- or left-handed is a familiar fact about yourself you likely don’t think about much on a day-to-day basis. However, your handedness affects how you interact with the world. For many people ...

Scientists have mapped a direct link between a common brain gas and the hyperactive cell growth often seen in autism. Protecting a specific protein from this gas normalized behavior in animal models ...

Watch a wolf documentary for a few minutes, then look at a French Bulldog snoring on someone’s couch. It almost feels ...

A first-in-class gene-regulating therapy cut seizures by up to 91% in children with Dravet syndrome in extension studies, ...

A new experimental drug is showing remarkable promise for children with Dravet syndrome, a severe genetic form of epilepsy.

Researchers found men who ejaculated more often had fewer prostate cancer diagnoses, pointing to a possible biological ...

Harvard Medical School neurobiologist David Ginty has won The Brain Prize 2026 for his career-long research on our sense of ...

Massive Swedish study of over two million people reveals that genetic risk for mental illness often points toward ...

This is different from traditional insomnia, in which you have “a much more realistic estimate of how much you actually slept ...