Neuroscientists at the Indiana University School of Medicine have created the first comprehensive map of genes likely to be involved in bipolar disorder, according to research published online Nov. 21 in the American Journal of Medical Genetics.

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released results from a study of the state of the Internet in Brazil, which includes a focus on social networking, one of the country’s most popular Internet categories. comScore’s data show that 85 percent of Brazilians age 15 and older who accessed the Internet from home or work computers in September 2008 visited a social networking site, up from 76 percent in September ...

Neuroscientists at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center have discovered a direct link between eye motions and the perception of illusory motion that solves a 200-year-old debate.

A study published by researchers at Yeshiva University and its medical school, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, strongly suggests that regular attendance at religious services reduces the risk of death by approximately 20 percent. The findings, published in Psychology and Health, were based on data drawn from participants who spanned numerous religious denominations.

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Scientists have discovered how stress - in the form of emotional, mental or physical tension - physically reshapes the brain and causes long-lasting harm to humans and animals.

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Image via Wikipedia I guess there's a way to make a living at being cranky. I've long enjoyed John Dvorak's columns, stemming all the way back to the early days of the PC, and he certainly has elevated the curmudgeonly column to an art form. But I guess I wonder whether it sometimes is more entertaining than informative, such as his recent provacatively titled "Google Must Die" column. He does the usual complaining about how ...

Having extremely large breasts is not an illness and an operation to reduce their size is therefore not covered by German state health insurance, a court said Wednesday.

Das Thema Corporate Social Responsibility bzw., wie Wikipedia es übersetzt "Unternehmerische Sozialverantwortung", spielt beim wohl entscheidensten Faktor der eine Marke ausmacht, nämlich Vertrauen, eine zentrale Rolle.Nur jene Marken, die beim User Vertrauen aufbauen können, zum Beispiel über Qualität der angebotenen Produkte oder Dienstleistungen aber auch über den Einsatz für soziale Projekte, stechen hervor und fallen der Zielgruppe auf.Im Online-Marketing gibt es abseits von klassischen Sponsoraktionen meines Wissens nach nur wenig Möglichkeiten, sich als Marke CSR-freundlich ...

A Japanese professor on Wednesday launched what he said was the world's first web-based psychotherapy sessions available via mobile phone, as the country grapples with a growing problem of depression.