The state Senate has approved a bill mandating abstinence-based sexual education in public schools, sparking debate over its ...

Tom Davis said "millions of dollars" are lost each year on costly, ineffective methods while missing the core fix.

The Alabama Senate on Thursday passed a bill requiring public schools teaching sex education to teach “sexual risk avoidance” instead of comprehensive sex education.

Wolves, often portrayed as ferocious predators in popular culture, actually display remarkable social intelligence when it comes to conflict management. These apex predators have evolved sophisticated ...

Researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) have developed a new tool to evaluate fear avoidance behavior following a concussion. The tool, aptly named the Fear Avoidance after Concussion Tool (FACT ...

Dismissive avoidant attachment often gets a bad rap and, sometimes, that can be justified based on “bad” behavior in relationships. That said, dismissive avoidant people are also widely misunderstood.

Facial expressions play a fundamental role in social communication. While it is well established that others’ expressions influence our behavior—such as approaching a smiling person or avoiding an ...

People actively avoid witnessing unfair situations to escape the mental burden of deciding whether to take action Having the power to punish unfairness actually makes people more likely to look away, ...

Researchers have identified a monoacylglycerol acyltransferase-coding gene named bishu-1. It is involved in the thermal responsiveness of cool temperature-sensing neurons by regulating ionotropic ...

Summary: Dopamine receptors in the ventral hippocampus play a critical role in balancing approach and avoidance behaviors, expanding understanding beyond dopamine’s known functions in reward and ...

Mount Sinai researchers have discovered distinct roles for two dopamine receptors located on nerve cells within the portion of the brain that controls approach vs. avoidance behavior. These receptors ...