What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government, there is no institutional role for the assembled people. However: ...

The roots of addiction risk may lie in how young brains function long before substance use begins, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine. The investigators found that children with a ...

Granada, Spain - This summer, Marina Roldan, a lawyer from Granada in southern Spain, finally got the phone call her family had waited decades for. The body of Fermin Roldan Garcia, her grandfather, ...

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A new study published in Molecular Psychiatry reveals that the biological underpinnings of autism and ADHD may transcend traditional diagnostic boundaries. While there is increasing appreciation that ...

Tension and hope are rising in Guinea-Bissau as voters prepare for one of the most contentious presidential elections since the country’s return to multiparty democracy. President Umaro Sissoco Embaló ...

For years, scientists believed humans lacked the ability to sense magnetic fields. But new experiments show the brain actually responds when magnetic fields change around us, even when we’re unaware ...

CHARLESTON — Dr. Nafiz Sheikh sat in front of the small crowd, a helmet tilted on the left side of his head to precisely target an area of his brain. "It feels OK," said Sheikh, a psychiatrist from ...

The irony could not be sharper: the man who orchestrated detentions without warrant and censored dissent would later be protected by the same constitutional guarantees he trampled upon Juan Ponce ...

Since the publication of the Human Genome Project, researchers have expanded the field of genomics to probe deeper into the underpinnings of human biology and disease, including studies of the body’s ...

Sprawling dreams of revolution took over the big screen this year, and it’s not hard to imagine why. But subtler forms of ...