Children with reading and spelling difficulties lag behind their peers despite special education

The reading skills of children with reading and spelling difficulties (RSD) lag far behind the age…

Clinical trials offer fresh hope for kids with rare brain disease

Anna Gunby can't run around as smoothly as most 4-year-olds because her wobbly legs are affected…

Skin stem cells used to generate new brain cells

Using human skin cells, neurobiologists have created a method to generate one of the principle cell…

Mystery of the missing mercury at the Great Salt Lake

Around 2010, the deep waters of Utah's Great Salt Lake contained high levels of toxic methylmercury.…

Facial expressions: How brains process emotion

The amygdala has distinct neurons that judge the intensity and ambiguity of facial expressions, new research…

Century-old mystery of Blood Falls solved

A century-old mystery involving a famous red waterfall in Antarctica has now been solved by researchers.…

Parents’ use of emotional feeding increases emotional eating in school-age children

Emotional eating is not uncommon in children and adolescents, but why youth eat emotionally has been…

33 percent of seafood sold in six DC eateries mislabeled, study finds

Scientists used a powerful genetic technique to test seafood dinners sold in six District restaurants and…

Novel mode of antidepressant action may help patients unresponsive to SSRIs

Scientists have identified a novel mode of action for a potential antidepressant that also leads to…

Early organic carbon got deep burial in mantle

Petrologists who recreated hot, high-pressure conditions from 60 miles below Earth's surface have found a new…