A new study published today in Science reports that humans have distinctive social skills. Esther Herrmann, lead author of the study,...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common debilitating psychiatric disorder, yet the cause of OCD is unknown and few effective treatments are available...

Developmental disorders including Down syndrome and Fragile X syndrome share the symptom of impaired memory. Theories on the origins of these disorders...

Memory training programs are becoming popular, but do they work for everyone? The bad news is that the older we get, the less likely we are to show improvements...

Nerve axons, the hair-like processes that connect brain regions, have been likened to telephone wires...

For a long time scientists have been quite intrigued by the rat?s ability to perform spatial tasks such as maze solving. Rats can combine scent and visual...

Learning a foreign language can be quite difficult for some. In a world of hundreds of languages much of it can end up sounding like Greek...

Bob McMurray is a speech learning specialist. He explains his study on children's word aquisition ability and how this relates to learning in general...

Honey bee queens control their offspring with chemicals (pheromones), but how these chemicals work has largely remained a mystery...