Recent investigations into children’s understanding of death reveal an intricate interplay between cognitive development, emotional exposure, cultural context and media representations. Children's ...

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham conducted a comprehensive review of 52 existing aphantasia research studies in hopes to uncover patterns and further the understanding of how ...

Stanford researchers made significant headway in isolating and understanding genes that lead to developmental disorders — helping to accelerate drug discovery and treatments for psychiatric disorders ...

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure. Why? Because it’s difficult to ...

Researchers have developed a new and unique blood test to measure the immune response to the Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) which is the leading risk factor for developing multiple sclerosis (MS). Their ...

The HSS (Humanities and Humanistic Social Science) labs program was created to provide research experience for students and expand and advance research for faculty in the humanities and social ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our understanding of science, space, and the universe. On November 2, 2000, ...

As a market researcher, I am a student of human behavior. Over the past few years, my coursework has accelerated; keeping up with an ever-changing consumer means going far beyond traditional research ...

New research conducted at the University of Liège, using ultra-high field 7 Tesla MRI, provides a better understanding of how light stimulates our brain and could provide new insights into how it ...