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Researchers found that prenatal exposure to discrimination and violence during the apartheid regime in South Africa predicted mental health problems in individuals whose households were particularly stressful.

Deep sleep can act as a “cognitive reserve factor” that may increase resilience against a protein in the brain that is linked to memory loss caused by dementia.

Research has led to a consensus of ethical Indigenous principles that outline eight critical elements for psychedelic researchers to consider in their trials and practice.

The human brain has an immense power to change. Andrea Gomez wants to know how cells and molecules in the brain enable that flexibility and change— called brain plasticity.

Gopala Anumanchipalli, a 2021 Rose Hills Innovator, is engineering systems that can give people with disease and disability a new way to talk.

In trademark law cases, scientist at UC Berkeley propose using brain scans rather than opinion to assess brand similarity.

A study published today in the journal Nature Communications reveals how a viral toxin produced by the SARS-CoV-2 virus may contribute to severe COVID-19 infections.

Scientists have discovered that you can wake up each morning without feeling sluggish by paying attention to three key factors: sleep, exercise and breakfast.

Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics will train people to safely guide patients' psychedelic experiences in therapeutic and research settings.

National Institute of Health awarded researchers at the School of Public Health a grant to develop a model to prevent women in Zimbabwe from contracting HIV.

Are depressed people simply more realistic in judging how much they control their lives, while others view the world through rose-colored lenses, living under the illusion that they have more control than they do?

Amid much speculation and research about how our genetics affect the way we age, a University of California, Berkeley, study now shows that individual differences in our DNA matter less as we get older and become prone to diseases of aging, such as diabetes and cancer.