Infants can read human expressions by looking at the whites of the eyes - or sclerae - in split seconds, according to a new study…A pair of fearful eyes has larger whites than eyes showing other emotions…Happy expressions show the smallest amount of white, for example…Experts conducted EEG (electroencephalography) tests on babies...Found infants react more to fear than happiness based on people's eyes… 

Bacteria in our stomachs can affect our brain chemistry, scientists say…These bacteria could have played part in developing social personalities…Bacteria's need to multiply could be behind human need to interact…Study on mice found probiotics helped reverse autistic symptoms …

Study of more than 8,000 French adults found no link between salt consumption and high blood pressure…30 per cent of people in England and the U.S. suffer... Hypertension - high blood pressure, the most prevalent chronic disease in the world… Researchers found body mass index (BMI) had the greatest impact on systolic blood pressure levels…

Study looked at the right amygdala - an emotion-sensitive brain region…Altruists displayed more activity in amygdala while viewing scared faces…Previous research showed structural brain differences that appear to make psychopaths making them less sensitive to others' fear and distress…

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has recently established the Hong Kong Institute of Integrative Medicine (HKIIM), the first university-run institute in the city that encompasses research, clinical practice and education in the integration of Chinese and Western medicine.