News

  1. Schizophrenia Plus and Minus: Cognitive course nudges patients into workforce

    Antipsychotic drugs exert disappointingly modest effects on the quality of life of people with schizophrenia, although a new cognitive-training program shows promise as a way to get these psychiatric patients into the workforce.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Animals

    Mafia Cowbirds: Do they muscle birds that don’t play ball?

    A new test offers the best evidence yet that cowbirds retaliate against birds that resist their egg scams.

    By Susan Milius

  3. Living Long on Less? Mouse and human cells respond to slim diets

    Some animals live longer on reduced-calorie diets, and in a recent experiment people on such diets had many of the cellular changes that those long-lived animals did.