Teen marijuana use is no longer a minor concern. It is a mounting public health challenge with serious implications for the developing brain.Increasingly, young people are using electronic cigarettes, ...

SMOKING up to 80 cigarettes a day, retired civil servant Ismail Mahmud, 68, gave little thought of the ill-effects of the unhealthy habit until he woke up one day and found he had lost his voice.

New research challenges the assumption that brains learn best through repetition, finding that associative learning relies more on how much time passes between rewards.

Lifelong learning may hold the key to healthier, happier aging. A new survey conducted by the University of San Francisco's Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning found that 82% of adults age 50+ who ...

I’m supposed to start any column on the subject of parenting with the assurance that I’m not here to judge. That’s what we do ...

Forget everything you knew about practice making perfect. New research shows your brain is actually wired to learn faster ...

More than a century ago, Pavlov trained his dog to associate the sound of a bell with food. Ever since, scientists have assumed the dog learned this through repetition. The more times the dog heard ...

Jason Bateman decided to get sober because his drinking caused “tension” with wife Amanda Anka. Anka, 57, called the “drip, ...

Sean Penn always knew that rescuing Jacob Ostreicher from his years of Bolivian imprisonment would be difficult. Ostreicher, ...

Waiting between rewards may help the brain learn faster. New research shows timing, not repetition, drives stronger learning updates.

Ryan Phillippe, C. Thomas Howell and director Adam Davidson discuss their guerrilla-style filmmaking and stunts for their two-part action thriller.