For centuries, people have blamed the full moon for stirring up madness. Folklore suggested that its glow could spark mania in bipolar disorder, provoke seizures in people with epilepsy or trigger ...

U.S. economists may be barely holding on by their fingernails over the current state of the American economy, but strangely, ...

Fear begins deep in the brain. The amygdala, buried within the temporal lobe, acts as an alarm system, detecting threats and ...

Do insectivorous animals perceive green, caterpillar-shaped clay as a tasty meal? Ecologists sometimes use plasticine models ...

The UC San Francisco Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, in partnership with the Greater San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), will ...

Every desire, fear, and act of love is the cosmos thinking through our minds. The ARCH model exposes the brain's hidden architecture—evolution's grand design for behavior.

Our brains evolved for complex thought and language - but the same genes that made us smarter may have increased mental illness risk.

Behavioral science has influenced and shaped policies and business practices for years. For its insights to be more effective ...

Jane Goodall died Wednesday. As she was universally regarded as the greatest living expert on chimpanzees, her passing is a momentous event. It’s one that comes at a time of upheaval in the field she ...

New research finds the disappearance of glaciers in the Sierra Nevada will be unprecedented in the human history of North America. The mountain glaciers of Yosemite National Park are projected to melt ...

Researchers and student volunteers pick up what seabirds throw up, then examine it for clues about our impact on the environment Jessica Leigh Hester Scientists scavenge the docks of Manhattan’s ...

A digital reconstruction of a one-million-year old skull in China called Yunxian 2 suggested that our species started to emerge half a million years earlier than previously believed, according to a ...