Driving kids to school is safer than allowing them to walk or cycle, right? Not when your child is breathing in higher levels of pollution in the backseat!

Feeling lonely can make people more focused on their own needs rather than those of others.

The Greek philosopher Aristotle described pride as the "crown of the virtues". It's after all an emotion we experience when we've achieved something great, or when someone close to us has. It usually has a recognisable physical expression – a slight smile, the head tilted back, the chest expanded, with arms raised or akimbo. Think Superman after he's defeated a villain.

DNA evidence exonerated six convicted killers. So why do some of them recall the crime so clearly?

Good mental health and having a partner make people happier than doubling their income, a new study has found. The research by the London School of Economics looked at responses from 200,000 people on how different factors impacted their wellbeing. Suffering from depression or anxiety hit individuals hardest, whilst being in a relationship saw the biggest increase in their happiness. The study's co-author said the findings demanded "a new role from the state".

For most people, the importance of mental health isn’t sufficiently intuitive. The seriousness of conditions like depression requires constant reinforcement via the media exposure afforded by ailing celebrities. In contrast, no one need be reminded that physical health is important, and rarely is it necessary to convince others that one’s physical issues are legitimate—skiving off work aside.

Groundbreaking neuroscience confirms what Sigmund Freud first theorized: that what we believe to be the objective reality surrounding us is actually formed by our subconscious. David Eagleman, who wrote and filmed a 2015 PBS documentary on our "inner cosmos," explains: "Neuroscience has drifted off a little bit from the directions that Freud was going in terms of the interpretations of whether your unconscious mind is sending you particular hidden signals and so on.

It was a book that originally piqued my interest in neuroscience and in the ten years I’ve studied neuroscience, what I’ve learned from books sticks with me longer than what I’ve learned in classes, lectures, conferences. Why do books stick with us? Are well-written books crafted for the structure of our minds—creating interest, weaving stories that we can remember, and connecting newly learned facts in our semantic memory with a narrative we store in our episodic memory?

A new study in the journal The Lancet Psychiatry finds that "distress and dysfunction" often reported by transgender people results from stigmatization. People who identify as transgender should not be considered to have a mental health disorder, according to a new study from Mexico. The World Health Organization currently lists transgender identity as a mental health disorder, and the new study is the first in a series of research aimed at finding out whether this categorization is apt. The study will be repeated in Brazil, France, India, Lebanon and South Africa, according to the researchers.

Even though Rick Perry has received his fair share of criticism for his actions as Governor of Texas, there are some believe that his successor, Greg Abbott, has revealed himself to have even “crazier” ideas...