When it comes to verbal memory skills women have the edge over men, yet in Alzheimer's disease (AD) this "cognitive reserve" may not confer an advantage but rather mask early signs of the disease, new ...

Extract: Eight boys and 27 girls with idiopathic sexual precocity were examined for IQ, with results as follows : On Wechsler subtests, special quotients were obtained for Verbal Comprehension ...

(CNN) -- For the first time, scientists have identified the genetic differences associated with left-handedness, a trait found in 10% of the human population. What's more, those genetic variants ...

A new study has challenged previous research which indicated that ‘night owls’ have superior verbal intelligence. The team behind the findings has described them as ‘surprising’ after looking more ...