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Students who are night owls have worse grades in high school and the beginning years of college, research has shown.

Feel like you're going crazy? Too much fat in your liver can lead to toxins that mess with your mind. And it's a problem doctors are seeing more and more.

Brain games can help with abstract reasoning months after the training, but they work only for those who really need and enjoy the exercises, a study says. Training a child to hold a whole cluster of items in his or her memory for even a short time may feel like trying to hold a wave on the sand.

Brain scans that detect early warning signs of Alzheimer's may be available in the United States as soon as this year.

Italian researchers report that some people who think they are lactose-intolerant may actually suffer from a psychological condition known as ...

If you have a brain aneurysm, drinking coffee, having sex or even getting angry may boost the risk of it rupturing, a new study suggests.

It happens to all of us: You stop at the store and forget the one thing you went for. You blank on your co-worker’s husband’s name—Is it John? Jim? And where are those darn keys?!? It’s normal to be forgetful once in awhile, especially if you’ve got a lot on your plate.

Mental health advocates hope that actress Catherine Zeta-Jones's public acknowledgment of her bipolar disorder will help dispel some of the myths and stigma around mental illness.

The elderly have a harder time multi-tasking than young adults because older people are far less nimble at switching neurological connections in their brains between activities, according to research released on Monday.

Keep working, have a sense of purpose—and don’t try to be happy. That’s the upshot of a couple of recent reports on several extensive studies.