The amygdala and the hippocampus -- structures in the brain that are involved in emotion, learning, and memory -- have been found to play...

Teenage girls with problematic social behavior display reduced brain activity and weaker connectivity between the brain regions...

Women's hormonal cycles may not only make them more prone to drug addiction but also more affected by triggers that lead to relapse, a...

The needs of trans gendered populations are rarely explored in the wider research base on addictions. Findings have produced a great...

A large scale study has found that people with autism show higher male trait scores in systemic thinking over empathetic thinking, above...

Cannabis use is moving rapidly towards decriminalization around the world. However, it is a complex cocktail of of psychoactive...

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

In lectures on human development it always causes a stir when I point out that men are not only genetically weaker than women but are...