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Researchers report that in the early stages of schizophrenia, patients can remember more about the interactions if given hints about context. This finding suggests a potential strategy for memory training.

Why do some people prefer stable, predictable lives while others prefer frequent changes? Findings of a study may hold answers to this question.

UCLA professor’s analysis of nearly 14 million tweets from the Arab Spring showed that normal people drive huge movements.

A new book for educators aims to help those with the disorder establish meaningful friendships and romantic relationships.

Miriam Posner writes about how get-girls-to-code initiatives that aim to fix tech’s gender imbalance may unintentionally help reinforce it.

The team discovers a biological marker that may help to identify youths at risk of poor outcomes and prevent cognitive decline.

Professor Shlomo Benartzi writes that when it comes to saving money people recognize the benefit of protection from one’s self.

UCLA researchers found that this was driven by participants’ views on social issues, such as marriage for same-sex couples, rather than economic issues, like tax cuts.

The pain of loneliness can cut deeper than a knife. But its implications go beyond inner turmoil and the corrosion of emotional health. It can contribute to a host of debilitating and sometimes lethal diseases.

Researchers compared how long babies looked at faces of adult women of different ethnicities to gain more understanding of social development.

Cassie Mogilner Holmes has been exploring the relationship between happiness, time and money for almost a decade. She’s looked deeply into such intriguing questions as: Does the meaning of happiness change as people age?

If winter days get you down, you’re not alone. You may have seasonal affective disorder, a type of depression triggered by the change of seasons.

An multidisciplinary team designed an algorithm that could discern structured narratives within the flow of posts on the internet reflecting how humans communicate.

The study is released as the United Nations marks the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

A study by UCLA researchers found that a noninvasive method can help to determine whether an individual will enter remission after just one week of medical treatment.

Behind the move to bring mindfulness into the school day is the UCLA Center for Child Anxiety Resilience Education and Support (CARES), which sponsors this and other programs that support student resilience.

The findings could provide scientists with a better understanding of how the brain goes awry in conditions like learning disorders and social anxiety disorder.

Magali Delmas, an environmental economist at UCLA, has been focusing on finding the most effective strategies to motivate people to change their behavior and conserve electricity.

"The Center Cannot Hold" tells the life story of Elyn Saks, professor of psychiatry and law, whose schizophrenic episodes began when she was in high school and worsened when she was a student at Yale Law School.

It’s important for medical professionals to understand that one’s gender identity as man, woman or trans is different from one’s sexual identity as gay, bisexual, lesbian or heterosexual.

Professors Sholmo Benartzi and Alan Castel say that as people age, they tend to focus on positive memories and those blindspots to past negatives can have bad financial consequences.

UCLA students study aging through a prism of disciplines, from biology through public health, and interact with older adults.

Many midlife and older gay men experience the stress of being part of a sexual minority group. They perceive that they need to conceal their sexual orientation, or that others are uncomfortable with or avoid them because they are gay.

With decades of experience in helping people with psychosis regain their place in society, UCLA neuroscientist Michael Green and his team of 10 psychiatrists, psychologists and other neuroscientists will look for ways to help formerly homeless veterans make the same transition.

The research found that the phenomenon holds true around the world — and that when people hear two women laughing together, they are likely to assume the women are friends.