Structural differences in the area of the brain responsible for decision making could explain why two siblings living in the same family...

A new Northwestern University study challenges prevailing understandings of genes as immutable features of biology that are fixed at...

In previous blog entries I shared research that showed that children and young people who were exposed to childhood trauma demonstrated...

Researchers have recently begun to realize that biological sex plays a key role in disease risk. Sex plays a role in hypertension,...

Of all the challenges that come with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the social difficulties are among the most...

Epigenetics is the study of how environments can switch your genes on or off. An intriguing study has identified key mechanisms of how...