When Ancient Societies Hit a Million People, Vengeful Gods Appeared: A new study suggests that the formation of complex societies came first and that the beliefs in such gods helped unite people under a common higher power.
For Some Teens With Debilitating Pain, The Treatment Is More Pain - 1,000s of teens suffer from a rare chronic pain condition that makes everyday life excruciating. Some are trying a counterintuitive treatment approach: Load up on pain until you learn to ignore it.
Study suggests humor could be an emotion regulation strategy for depression - Humor can help decrease negative emotional reactions in people vulnerable to depression, according to new preliminary research of 55 patients with remitted major depression.
MIT neuroscientists have shown that they can improve cognitive and memory impairments in mice similar to those seen in Alzheimer’s patients using a noninvasive treatment which works by inducing brain waves, which also greatly reduced the number of amyloid plaques found in their brains.