From monarchies to democracies and everything in between, this breakdown reveals how different nations distribute power and authority. The video explores who truly governs, how decisions are enforced, ...

Women are affected by severe depression twice as often as men. The reasons for this have not yet been fully clarified. One potential factor is sex-specific differences in the blood-brain barrier. This ...

Lakhan is a board-certified neurologist and pain physician, former department chair and curricular dean of a medical school, and a multiple first-in-class therapeutics developer. The brain is the seat ...

Researchers led by Dr. Roberto Goya-Maldonado at the University Medical Center Göttingen have identified a rapid physiological marker that predicts which patients with major depression will respond to ...

AI "tools can be exploited by people who want to make democracy more authoritarian," write Schneier and Sanders.

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There must be something about the human brain that’s different from the brains of other animals — something that enables humans to plan, imagine the future, solve crossword puzzles, tell sarcastic ...

Given Europe’s stature as a major market for financial services, it is not much of a surprise that it is a haven for a significant chunk of the world’s flow of illicit funds—it is estimated that ...

Findings from a randomized and blinded clinical trial investigating repeated ketamine infusions for treating depression have revealed no extra benefit for ketamine when added onto standard care for ...

For Rachel Herz, nothing is sweeter than the smell of… skunk. Herz traces this strange predilection back to a car ride one balmy summer afternoon when she was 5. "The sun was shining, the cicadas were ...